A retired colonel comes to rest in the Crimea. He has come independently without any package tour and begins to look for a flat. He stops at Anna Ivanovna’s appartment. She is an elderly woman and has been tired of seasonal work, because in order to live a year she should earn money on tourists. The man sees a photo on the wall in her house, which shows him and his friend in his younger years. It turns out that Anna is the mother of his dead friend.