The action takes place in the USSR in 1950. Flying Alexei Astakhov fought and fell into captivity, then fled. In peacetime, Alexei collided with distrust and suspicion - as a soldier, visited the prisoner, and thus "tarnished moral image of the Soviet pilot." Alex suffers, can not find work in a profession and place in life. His love saves Sasha Lviv, which she kept through the war and all the difficulties of post-war time. After Stalin's death Astakhova are in the Defense Ministry, which returned to the star of Hero of the Soviet Union. Alex returns to the Aviation and experienced aircraft.