A young teacher grows up in a small Slovak village during the Second World War.

For Vera — a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and happiness brings disappointment — and it was enough to have one first deception, and before a self-confident girl changes, becomes suspicious and closed. She no longer believes in anyone and runs away from people — having left the institute, Vera and her small daughter leave for a remote village where no one knows her. Soon she has a thin and responsive friend — a teacher at a neighboring school, Aleksei Nikolaevich...

An injury ended Zhang Zhiqiangs dream of becoming a professional basketball player, so he became a physical education teacher. To impress the new young math teacher, he volunteers to teach the problem class of the school in math.