A fresh young graduate of the mathematics faculty is in a position to choose to remain with his teacher, as an assistant, accepting certain compromises - to marry the teacher's daughter - or to become a country teacher. Choose the second option, becoming a teacher in your native village. Find a house left - my mother is dead, my father works on the site. According to the difficulties of the beginning, the responsibility of restoring the household as well as the contact with the innocence and the purity of the children give the feeling that the choice was not really a bad thing. He has regained his identity.