Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.

Seven brothers are seven colored pencils, the best friends of all kids. The pencil brothers paint the world around them in different colors, draw the sun and trees, a lake and a house, and after the rain, the brothers’ mother appears in the sky - a bright rainbow.