Victor Astafiev’s novel “The Snow is Melting” is dedicated to the complex post-war restoration of agriculture in the Ural outback. A young woman with a child comes to the collective farm to take the position of agronomist and on the very first day she recognizes the director as the father of her eight-year-old son. But the past remains in the past, and she, a young agricultural specialist, is debugging collective farm affairs and building her life, finding hope for happiness. The snow melts on the ground - and it melts in people’s souls...