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Screen adaptation of stories for children written by Mikhail Zoshchenko.

One beautiful summer morning in a small Russian country town, six-year Marussya wakes up to the sound of her parents arguing. When her mum departs 'for the city' with no set date for return, and her dad suggests that he and Marussya take a train to Lake Baikal, Marussya is determined to delay the departure. She improvises a fairy tale, in which her mum, as a school-age girl, sets off on a dangerous journey to an imagined Russian past to save Marussya's dad, then her schoolmate.

Spring 1942. Moscow schoolgirl Katya is corresponding with a cadet of the naval school Kostya, who is unknown to her. When sent to the front, his echelon must pass through Moscow, and they have a chance to meet ... Our days. Muscovite Katya, a talented violinist and a wild child, without realizing it, begins to follow in the footsteps of the history of Katya and Kostya, her peers from the war years. Will she be able to finish an amazing teenage love story that began years ago?