Молодому юристу, в первый день службы, поручают закончить дело, которое вел умерший накануне сотрудник. Однако, блестяще распутав дело и засвидетельствовав связи преступников с прокуратурой, герой принимает неожиданное для профессионала решение - покончить с мирской жизнью и постричься в монахи...

Builder Hovsep Manukyan's big and restless family hosts his old father Poghos who is forced to move from his native village. Many good and bad, funny and sad, important and unimportant events take place in the family of Hovsep, that help the older and the young to share their most valuable experience - culture of life, co-existence and devotion.

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.