Special issue "ON THE THRESHOLD" The special issue is dedicated to convicted juvenile criminals who are serving their sentences in a correctional labor colony. The guard opens the door of the prison cell, calls the prisoner Cheremkhovsky to the chief. In the cell, the guys sit on bunks, show themselves and explain (sync.) The meaning of the tattoos. In the courtyard of the colony, in their free time, boys pour water over them, someone shines their shoes, someone lies. There is an opportunity to study and finish high school in the colony. Young men are sitting in a school class at a lesson. Before being released, certificates of maturity are received by Lev Arkadyevich Medvedev, Ruslan Viktorovich Bugash, Konstantin Ivanovich Vorobiev and others. In the training workshop, the guys work on machine tools, others master the profession of a blacksmith. When parents come to their children in the colony, they talk to him and by phone. Others see their task in feeding the children. In a large room, relatives and colonists sit at tables with food and talk. The head of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk educational and labor colony for minors, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Grigorievich Vorobyov, gets acquainted with the criminal cases of his wards. He is worried about the further fate of the children who were released. Kostya Vorobyov, sentenced to three years, is met by his mother, Lydia Vasilievna. She was deprived of parental rights, was released from prison a month and a half ago and has already managed to exchange a comfortable apartment for a room in a barrack. Kostya has no father, and his stepfather is in prison. L.V. Vorobyova promises (sinhr.) To follow her son. Former convict Shcherbakov accepts congratulations from relatives. The column of children leaves the colony.