Having learned from his younger brother Pashka about the mysterious death of his father, Yegor returns to his native village after many years of absence. It turns out that the entire inheritance - a farm with a small number of cows and a piece of land - must go to pay off the father's debts to a local entrepreneur. Pashka is categorically against the slaughter of cows and the sale of land. A quarrel breaks out between the brothers. Yegor asks local guys to help take the cows to the neighboring village to the slaughterhouse, but Pashka is ahead of them, who, under cover of night, takes the whole herd in an unknown direction.
In the measured and quiet everyday life of Tanya, Sergei, who was late for the Moscow train, appears. The world of a small station town with ancient temples opens up to him. He becomes imbued with Tanya’s church chants and learns the history of her family, traumatized by the loss. A new life begins for the girl in agonizing anticipation of meetings accompanied by the sound of the wheels of passing trains.
