Plot Summary

Young Mitya, comparing his father's home photo with the picture in the newspaper, realized that he had to go to the Arctic coast to finally meet his father. But the wait for the meeting turns out to be long, because the young man himself is not ready for this, and then, having personally learned about life at the polar reserve airfield, he is no longer so irreconcilable and does not attach such crucial importance to the meeting with his father.