The film is about Yevdokiia Nikitichna Striliana, an assembler at the Kharkiv Electromechanical Plant (KhEMZ), who was the first among the UTOH members to be awarded the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1965. The film tells the story of Yevdokiya Streliana's meeting with schoolchildren, during which she shares her memories of her childhood in the 1920s, her studies at a school for the deaf, and from 1932 at a vocational school at the plant, the beginning of her work in 1941 and the evacuation with KhEMZ to Cheboksary in Chuvashia, her unsuccessful marriage, and her return to Kharkiv.