A story about women living in the same communal apartment, which they themselves nicknamed the "Widow's Steamer". Everyone has their own story and their own grief. In 1943, Anfisa Gromova returned here from the front…
Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.
Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.