About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that “forestry is turning into ordinary forest management.”
A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.
