First-grader Tanya lives in a Yakut village with her grandparents. Although her father has not written to her for a long time, the girl has no doubt that he constantly invisibly helps her every time she needs him. Every morning in the village house begins with the anthem of the USSR on the radio, telling about the meeting between Brezhnev and the oil workers. However, Tanya is sure that "every new day reveals something unknown and secret" and wants to tell about the events of her childhood, which still cause her, as an adult woman, either tears or great joy. Looking out the window at her peers, the wise heroine asks: "Why do children play all the time? When do they think? Probably never, so they're happy?»