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While fixing a broken winch, Vasily Kuzyakin gets injured and receives a voucher to a southern resort. There he meets the fateful Raisa Zakharovna, and... Vasya returns from the resort not to his own village, but to Raisa Zakharovna's house. A new life begins for him, full of things both puzzling and interesting, but without the home where Nadya, the children, and the pigeons remained.