Collective farmer Lyavon Chyh prefers private farming to public farming. For his beloved cow Krasuli, he tries to steal hay from a collective farm stack, refuses to consent to the wedding of his daughter Sonya with a zootechnician Misha, because the young people are going to live in a new comfortable house without a private plot. After all, he hoped that in the person of his son-in-law he would acquire a new employee in his vast household. Worried about rumors that household plots will be cut off, he complains to the regional committee.