The hero of the play, Gleb Nikolayevich Krymov, lives and works as a teacher at a school in Leningrad. After his wife leaves him, he goes north to live with his cousin Masha. Krymov gets work on a construction site and meets new people. But not everything goes smoothly right away—Krymov has trouble forgetting the past. His relationship with his sister and with the crew doesn’t go easily either, but little by little life starts to fall into place…