The story of the Zhylin family, who were sent to the Urals to build a plant during the dekulakization and collectivization. For the protagonist, Fyodor Zhilin, who was arrested for refusing to go against his kulak father, the construction of a giant plant saved him from arrest and being sent to a camp. In the Urals, a completely different life began for Žilina, in which there was a place not only for labor achievements, but also for human dramas. And then the war broke out, ruthlessly destroying destinies ...