The film contains footage of the first snowfall, family leisure time in an apartment, children playing in the yard, and family walks in the parks of Lviv.
1) 00:00:00 – 00:00:18 — A branch of geranium. View from a house window of a dog in the yard. A boy plays with the dog while a woman looks out from the entrance of the building.
2) 00:00:19 – 00:03:08 — Handwritten note on a sheet of paper: “First snow, October 31 – November 2, 1974.” A snow-covered playground with a basketball hoop, with a panorama of Khrushchev-era apartment blocks in the background. Anna Vasylivna (Moroz) Patai walks with a bucket along a path in the yard covered with melting snow. Grandmother Anastasia Ilkivna Patai (Nesterenko) speaks with her granddaughter Liudmyla Patai in the kitchen of a Khrushchev-era apartment. Landscape shots of trees and a passerby in the courtyard. Scenes of a family dinner: Grandmother Anastasia ties an apron on Liudmyla. Close-up of the girl in her school uniform sitting at the table. Shots of a snowstorm with the entrance to the apartment building in the background. Liudmyla reaches out to a cage with a parrot, which lands on her hand. Snow-covered yard. Liudmyla walks in the snow and poses for the camera, filmed from her window. Albert Opanasovych Patai reads the magazine Soviet Photo by the window. A snow-covered bird feeder on the balcony. Footage of a television broadcast of the animated series Well, Just You Wait!.
3) 00:03:09 – 00:04:20 — Grandmother Anastasia and Liudmyla inside a room. The grandmother knits. Shots of passersby and boys with a dog in the yard, filmed from the apartment window. Footage of a television broadcast showing a space flight.
4) 00:04:21 – 00:06:25 — General view of a Khrushchev-era apartment building. Girls, including Liudmyla Patai, play badminton in the yard. Close-up of a balcony. Wide shots of children playing. A girl stands beside laundry hanging in the yard. Shots of tree branches. The silhouette of Grandmother Anastasia in a window. Lyudmila digs under a bush and smiles at the camera. Close-up of vegetables.
5) 00:06:26 – 00:08:39 — Family walk. Anna Patai talks with her daughter Liudmyla. Albert Patai and his daughter climb a slope. Close-up of a man. The girl speaks to the camera in sign language. Anna and Albert Patai walk toward the camera with a camera in hand. Mother and daughter near the ski lift in Kaiserwald. Panorama of a ski slope. Anna Patai poses against a background of a spruce. Shots of a wooden mill.
6) 00:08:40 – 00:09:10 — Homemade cookies on a windowsill and tiger lilies. View from the apartment window of a boy in the yard. Family leisure time in the apartment.
7) 00:09:11 – 00:14:34 — The Patai and Stepanian families walk near the Monument to the Military Glory of the Soviet Armed Forces in Lviv. Albert Patai and Rantyk Stepanian communicate in sign language. Albert Opanasovych carries a video camera case. General shots of visitors to a heavy bomber aviation exhibition in B. Khmelnytskyi Culture and Recreation Park. Close-ups of family members. Close-ups of aircraft, including a MiG-21 fighter jet. Children examine the pilot’s cockpit. General views of the exhibition with a Mi-8 helicopter and a model of an aircraft turbine. Photographs documenting the history of Soviet aviation. Liudmila Patai climbs toward the cockpit of the MiG-21. Olena Stepanian, Liudmyla, and Albert Patai examine the instrument panel of the Mi-8 helicopter. Men communicate in sign language. General view of a park alley with children on scooters and tricycles. Footage of an exhibition of products from Lviv light-industry factories: buttons, ceramics, and Christmas tree decorations. Rantyk Stepanian communicates with Anna and Albert Patai from the other side of the camera using sign language. Parents and daughters sit at a bistro table with drinks.
8) 00:14:35 – 00:17:17 — Wide shots of a crowd of parents with children at the Pionerska Children’s Railway station in Stryiskyi Park. Rantyk Stepanian waves to the train passengers. The children’s railway train departs. Anna and Albert walk down a park alley. Albert Patai speaks with Rantyk Stepanian against the backdrop of artificial romantic-style ruins resembling a castle. Rantyk Stepanian sits on a bench with his daughter Olena and Liudmyla Patai. Panorama of the lower terraces of the park with a greenhouse. Park visitors by the lake with swans.
9) 00:17:18 – 00:19:25 — Inscription: “Zastava Lopatina i Pustelnykova” (“The Outpost of Lopatin and Pustelnykov”). Handwritten titles: cinematographers — Albert and Anna Patai; artist — Liudmyla Patai. Date: April 27, 1975. Overexposed fragment of film showing a man leading a dog by the collar into the yard of a rural house. A ceremonial gathering at a monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Semion Pustelnykov. Anna Patai walks along a forest path carrying brushwood. A VAZ-2101 Zhiguli car on a forest road.
The people in the film communicate in sign language. The film includes captions.