For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Follows a man who, 37 years ago, was kicked off his collegiate football team for an altercation. Now at 59, he still carries that burden. He decides to go back to school to get his degree and try out for the team to redeem his past.
江南某市新华织布厂第一织布车间的先进小组的工人们，在对待如何使生产质量更上一层楼的问题上，产生了不同的意见。共产党员黎玉贞是个站得高看得远的先进工人。她掌握了“红花防疵”的先进工作方法。但她并不自满，提议到本市新新布厂去学习提高“布面平整度”的经验。而生产组长萧桂英认为新新布厂是个小厂，没有什么好学，说什么学先进要“门当户对”。恰巧新新布厂派了生产能手杜桂英和杨巧英来新华厂取经，于是，在帮和学的问题上，先进小组的工人们又产生了两种不同的态度。黎玉贞既肯无私地教她们布面防疵的操作方法，又能虚心学习她们先进的接头经验，而萧桂英由于连续几年被评为先进，在成绩面前滋长了骄傲自满的情绪。她既不放手教人，又看不见别人的长处，结果，在全市评比中落在萧桂英后面。在党支部和黎玉贞的教育帮助下，萧桂英终于认识了自己固步自封的危害性，改变了骄傲自大的态度，与黎玉贞一起到新...
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