"In the fool who walks along the street, there is more time - an era than in any minister."

You can not argue with Shukshin.

The heroes of the play live in Siberia, in the seventies of the twentieth century.

A story about how, in the life of ordinary Russian people, villagers, the fussy city life encroaches. And every time it breaks the usual course of events, and sometimes it breaks the life of a good person.

So Stepka, who got into the city prison, escapes from it, when he stayed very little. I could not stand it, I wanted to go home, to the open space. City does not understand this.

Claudia's wife, with great difficulty, tries to squeeze her foot into her tight boots, which her husband brought from the city. And all the housework help her. Do not throw away the expensive new thing.

A microscope, a miracle of technology, which so loved one of the villagers!

Rural residents may be mistaken, cunning, even lying sometimes. But most often they are completely defenseless against the pressure of industrial culture.

Shukshin was interested in the truth of life. His characters try to live by their conscience. Not always it turns out at them. Then they experience. Sometimes they drink from grief. But remain pure soul.

"It's light in my room. It's from the night star. Mother will take a bucket. Silently bring water ... "