It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, le...