A short story about first-graders and their first teacher. Teacher Tatyana Ivanovna has to solve many questions: on the very first day of school, a first-grader decides to leave school; another is happy about a bad grade; someone greets the teacher by shaking her hand; someone can’t find the way to the native classroom; someone’s mother is sick; and the girl Nina is teased in the courtyard because her father drinks. And to each of them, the young teacher Tatyana Ivanovna manages to come and help.