What is graduation? Blooming youth, “beautiful far away,” first love? For graduates Yura and Nadya, graduating from school means the 1941 war, countless deaths and hunger. One day, white bows and shirts were replaced by a gray overcoat and uniform... But what about love? Did it really dry up during the war? Are she, a dreamy lover of poetry, and he, a mathematician to the core, capable of love? How will such a feeling “inadmissible” for war turn out for them? The tragic story “The Gardens are Blooming” is ready to answer all questions, touching on events whose echoes still haunt the memory, despite the transience of time.