The story of a young married couple. Marta, a schoolteacher, and Adam, a factory worker, marry despite family objections and anxiously await their own apartment in a housing-shortage city, struggling through renting makeshift lodgings and mounting money woes. When Marta discovers she’s pregnant, Adam urgently borrows a small garden cottage in hopes that a private corner of their own will finally allow them to build the stable family life they both dream of.