The mother sent the teenager to learn how to swim with a good trainer. After the first classes, the boy staged a local revolution in the pool. It seemed more important to resist than to learn how to swim.
1942 year. Pavlodar. Kazakhstan. Far Eastern military echelon. Tanker Stepan hopes to meet his mother. The soldier Litovkin is faced with a difficult choice - to fulfill the order or to skip mother to son.