1st plot. Steps of technical progress. The plot tells about the Grozny NPO Promavtomatika. The research staff of the association, under the leadership of Alexander Alekseevich Opryshko, Candidate of Technical Sciences, are engaged in the development of the Kurs software and hardware complex for the production management system. A.A. Opryshko gives interviews - tells (sync. And behind the scenes.) About the complex "Course". 2nd plot. Conversion. The plot tells about the creation of an experimental wind power base of the USSR Ministry of Energy in Dagestan. Installation of a wind power plant according to the drawings of the All-Union Institute "Hydroproject" on Mount Khodum in Dagestan. Installation work. 3rd plot. How do you live in theater? General view of the building of the Russian Drama Theater in Ordzhonikidze. Poster for the new play "Lackey Games". View of a half-empty hall. A scene from the play. Panorama of the props in the theater. Prop Vladimir Viktorovich Zhmudsky at work, talks about the fact that few people go to the theater (sync and behind the scenes). A stage worker on the stage of the theater after the performance. Chronicle footage: gala evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of E.B. Vakhtangov at the theater. E. Vakhtangov in Moscow. Speech by M.A. Ulyanov, N.A. of the USSR (no sync.). In the presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences - V.S.Lanova, E.R.Simonov and others. 4th plot. Interview with a taciturn person. Mountains in Karachay-Cherkessia. A herd of yaks climbs the mountain. Cameraman G. Gavrilov interviews the shepherd Karakotov (sinhr.).