On a Wedding, a Departure, and Love

Using the village of Ulyakhino in the Gus-Khrustalny District of the Vladimir Region as a case study, the filmmakers chronicle the changes taking place in rural life: year-round employment for residents, diversified economic activities, increased crop yields and milk production, and the desire of young people to remain in the village to live and work; they also depict the daily duties and concerns of the collective farm chairman, Stepan Petrovich Ginin—a Candidate of Economic Sciences.