The film raises the question of land, shows the ruin of the village and the development of private farms. Cleaning of bread. Harvesters are working. Grain is falling. Chronicle. Shot "Aurora". "Decree on Land". Surveyor in the field. Fragment of the feature film "Lenin in October". Lenin's book "On cooperation". Old Moscow. Cooperative bank building. Cabbies, cars. Queue. Enrollment in collective farms. The peasants are leading the horses. They plow the land. First furrow. Women in the field, at the blackboard, are planting seedlings. II All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers. The delegates are applauding. JV Stalin, Molotov on the podium, talking and taking pictures with the collective farmers. Fragment of the film "The Rich Bride". War of 1941-45: Refugees are going, a woman at the stove in the ashes. 50s. The girl carries a Christmas tree. People with purchases. Shop counters with groceries. People at the counters. The building of the deli. Price tags for bread and other products are changing. Queue for groceries. The peasants greet NS Khrushchev with bread and salt. Khrushchev among the people, with corn. Transportation of huts. Abandoned house with a boarded up window. Ruined church. Seeing young people off to the virgin lands. The rise of virgin lands. 1969 year. III Congress of Collective Farmers. Lobby of the Congress. Leonid Brezhnev is speaking. Mikhail Gorbachev among the people. XXVII Congress of the CPSU. Mikhail Gorbachev is speaking. Rural landscape. Country houses. Interview with the director of the state farm Ivanitsky (synchronously). Village courtyard, street. Interview of collective farmers about land lease (synchronously). Farmer's farm. Greenhouse. Farmer's interview (synchronously). Bazaar. Greens, berries, vegetables on the shelves. Empty shop counters. Queue to the grocery store. The queue number is written on the hand.