As a boy, Anatoly Lobanov accidentally saw a woman with whom he immediately fell in love. Unfortunately, he had no way to find out who she was. The woman, having captured the boy’s heart, disappeared forever, but her image, like a ghost, haunts him for the rest of his life. Anatoly will look for her in every girl, but to no avail. In some way they will yield to his understanding of the ideal. And then Anatoly’s friends persuade him to give up chasing the ghost and allow himself to fall in love. Anatoly agrees with them and lets go of the ghost from the past. But the ghost of the past does not want to let Anatoly go...