在远洋轮上当技师的尼克周游列国带着一大堆礼物兴高采烈回家，然而一到家他发现父亲的腿没有了。他的父亲是个做长途贩运的卡车司机，因为奸商麦克暗算而变成残废并且被麦克讹走一大笔钱。年轻气盛的尼克决定为父亲讨回公道。于是，他和人结伴收购了果园里的苹果准备去卖，一路上，他们遇到了暴胎、瞌睡、受伤等种种困难，终于将货物运到了市场，在市场上狭路相逢奸诈的麦克，麦克以卑鄙手段扎破尼克卡车的轮胎，试图让尼克就范，低价出售苹果，他还找来应招女郎丽卡纠缠尼克，但尼克胸有成竹对付奸商的计谋，据理力争，终于拿到了应得的份额。他高兴地请丽卡喝酒却招来横祸巨款被麦克手下以暴力手段抢走，尼克的女友知道了他的情况弃他而去，这反倒坚定了丽卡帮助他的决心，她不仅帮助尼克追回了巨款，也使得恶霸绳之以法，她自己也获得了尼克的爱情，好莱坞电影总是有着一个令人满意的结局，唯一遗憾的是虽然尼克赢得了钱和丽卡的爱情，而带他出道伙伴埃迪却因为刹车失灵，车毁人亡，音乐无法感受他们的甜蜜了。

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.