This is a novella about young colleagues — doctors searching for their place in life and finding it, a novella about the younger generation, its thoughts, feelings, and love. There are three of them — three different people, three different characters: the sharp, gloomy Alexei Maksimov, who sometimes affects skepticism; the веселый fellow, girls’ favorite, and guitarist Vladislav Karpov; and the somewhat funny, impulsive, polite, very straightforward and sincere Alexander Zelenin. And at the same time they have so much in common, so much that is typical: enormous energy and love of life, devotion to their profession, to the sun, to sports.