The film takes place in 1944 in a Moldovan village that had just been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young teacher creates a school pioneer organization. He is opposed by the school principal, who is hiding a fascist agent. With the help of a young teacher and his students, police officers manage to neutralize the criminal.
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
A group of Soviet paratroopers are engaged in a secret operation in Adriatic sea during the last year of WWII.
They are rural teachers, people of inquisitive thought and high moral duty. It is not easy for them, because they have no right to make mistakes, the younger generation looks up to them, fellow villagers look up to them.