Valya liked the balanced Ilya, but she habitually lost the gentleman to her more assertive friend Galina. And she herself married the demanding Stepan. At Valya’s wedding, Galka said that Ilya had joined the army and was now waiting for letters from her. But she is not going to write, because she does not want to waste two years. Valya, secretly from her husband, writes him a letter on behalf of her treacherous girlfriend. Many years pass, and quite by accident a new letter from Ilya falls into the hands of Valentina. And from that moment on, her meeting with him becomes inevitable...