The film tells about the village of Kolyvan, Novosibirsk region, about one of the inhabitants of the village - eleven-year-old Andrei Tkachenko. The film includes the following filming: 1 part. General view of the village, the church in the center of the village. The nuns of the local monastery on the bell tower. The juvenile affairs inspector is talking with Andrei Tkachenko (sync and off-screen.). Children walk from school, Andrei Tkachenko and his friends are lying in a haystack, fiddling on the road, sitting in a barn, talking and singing (sync. And off-screen.). A villager, the owner of one of the yards, brings hay to the cows. Cows and horses chew hay. Children enter the school. Pupils of the village school in a mathematics lesson, the teacher conducts the lesson (sync. And for the frame.). Children on the street. Part 2. Children are lying in the snow. Literature lesson. Andrey Tkachenko answers in the lesson (sinhr.). The teacher talks with students in the classroom (sync. And off-screen.). Panorama of the biology office at the school. Andrey and his friend Dimka are messing around on the street, sorting out the relationship (sinhr.). A social worker talks to Andrey in the school office (sync. And off-screen.). General view of the village, the church. A nun talks to Andrey at school (sync. And off-screen.) Part 3. Street of the village of Kolyvan. Andrey Tkachenko talks with friends (sync. And behind the frame.), With the film director Y. Schiller (for the frame.). General view of the village, skating rink, school. Andrey and his friends are walking along the road.