A one-act play. Written in 1963. First published in the journal “Teatr” (1964). This play was the starting point for the readers’ acquaintance with Vampilov as a playwright.
Teacher Tret’iakov, returning to the city after three years of work in the village, comes to say goodbye to Lidiya Vasilievna Astafyeva. Gradually it becomes clear that the characters feel mutual sympathy, carefully concealed from one another...
Recording: 1975