1957 1

A team of steel erectors has been redeployed to a steel mill construction site in a small town. The head of the squad, Nikolai Pasechnik, is a shockworker of Socialist Labour and reputed to be a darling of the women and a quick wit. Welder Katerina Petrasheny, working on the construction site as well, is to be considered a pretty girl of easy virtue : She smokes, is not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively.