A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.
At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.
The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
Young boy dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation.