全片分上下集，是关于一个女人对爱情所作的决定。女主人公任尼亚离开丈夫来到情人安德里安诺夫身边，但是情人的爱情观很快又使得她离开。经过长时间的精神折磨，她遇到了另一个年轻的追求者尤拉，但是这次她犹豫了。
这部电影的编剧格布里罗维奇是苏联剧作大师，毕生从事剧本创作和剧作教学工作。他的作品虽都不是自己导演，但都带有独特的风格痕迹。

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.