Vitaliy Krayev

Matvey Terentyevich Danilov, a prominent Russian scientist and academician, having lost all hope of being able to continue his scientific work in Russia, was forced to leave his homeland and go to France, where he was guaranteed all the conditions to continue the research that was important to him and to science. The decision to leave Russia was not easy for him; he resisted it for a long time, considering leaving the country to be an act of betrayal. His soul is full of doubts about whether the chosen step was the right one.After the last scientific conference he attended in Russia, which was held in a remote Siberian city, on his way to the airport, Matvey Terentyevich stops by the village where he was born and raised. The day he spent in his native village is what the story is about…

After the theater's commission rejected Andrey's directorial work, he left to work as a simple projectionist in a cinema. The director of the Vakhonin theater, having learned that Andrey has his own booth, immediately decided to use it, inviting the actress of his troupe Tatiana to watch the film. Under such banal and very piquant circumstances, Andrei's strong feeling for Tatiana is born...