1 plot "From galoshes to sneakers" (opera. V. Schwarzkopf) Tomsk. Employees of the Tomsk Rubber Shoes Plant at work on a shoe press, on a conveyor belt with finished products. Exhibition of finished products. Deputy Director of the Tomsk rubber footwear plant Evdokia Alexandrovna Musyashchikova in the office says (sinhr.) About improving the range of products manufactured by the plant. 2 plot "Let's be healthy" (opera. V. Schwarzkopf) Tomsk. The building of the Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital. Hospital medical staff walk down the corridor; examine patients with the help of computer technology and medical equipment; conducts the operation. The chief physician of the hospital, Boris Timofeevich Serykh, in the office says (sinhr.) About the organization of work; about problems with medical personnel. 3 plot "Who will shelter talents?" (opera. N. Gosudarkin) Novoaltaisk. The crumbling building of the Novoaltaisk Art School; interiors, traces of mold on the ceiling. Students in the classroom. The teachers and students of the school talk (sync.) About the difficult working and learning conditions in the old building; about the need to transfer the school to the city of Barnaul. Barnaul. Ancient building; plaque on the building with the NDP: "PR.IM. IN AND. LENIN 6 ". Deputy Chairman of the City Executive Committee Nina Innokentyevna Romanenko in her office speaks (sync.) About the problems of the Novoaltaisk Art School. The plot uses newsreel footage: Novoaltaisk, 1984 - Exhibition of works by students of the Novoaltaisk Art School; visitors to the exhibition. 4 plot “Failure of Operation“ Resident ”” (opera. V. Ashikhmin) Novosibirsk. The streets of the town. People at the entrance to public toilet number 10. A man stands at the trash cans. A young man in a raincoat, hat, dark glasses on the street speaks by radio; goes up to people on the street, asks about the location of the toilet. Two police officers in civilian clothes are taking the "resident" out of the toilet by the arms. A police officer in his office says (sinhr.) To the "resident" that his mission has failed, and there is only one public toilet left in the city.