The film tells about the Zarya collective farm.
Village huts in winter. People riding in sleighs. Evening in the village. Horses on the river bank, in the water. Former editor of the city newspaper, now chairman of the Zarya collective farm D. M. Kuzovlev is at the window, unharnessing the horse, talking about life in the village (synchronously). Kuzovlev's daughter and son in a sleigh. A horse near the house. An old man is sewing felt boots. An old woman at a loom. A family at the table. Tea drinking. House. Chickens in the yard of the house. Cows. Work in the wheel workshop. The board of the collective farm. D. Kuzovlev, an agronomist, is speaking. A herd is walking. Women are driving cows and sheep. D. Kuzovlev is talking to old people sitting on logs (synchronously), driving by in a car, examining a school project. Construction of a boarding school.