A film about the work of nurses. The film includes filming: A motor transport passes through the streets of the city of Moscow. Medical students in the classroom, practice in one of the maternity hospitals, at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, at the Institute. Sklifasovsky, in the pharmaceutical laboratory. Head of the ambulance substation I.G. Vaurin gives interviews (sync). Paramedics resuscitate a patient in an ambulance. Midwife N.V. Katkova takes delivery of a woman, talks about her work (sinhr.). The patronizing sister of the Red Cross N. Zhigareva takes care of elderly women, gives interviews (sinhr.). Doctors at work, in the classroom at the Advanced Training School.