Anna, already an elderly single woman, spends another weekend in the company of her mother in one of the boarding houses near Moscow. One of the points of the cultural program is a visit to Tyutchev's house-museum, where Anna, by negligence, breaks one of the exhibits and provokes a conflict both, with the museum's management, as well as with her own mother.

Anna defiantly refuses to take part in any further activities planned by her mother for the rest of the day. She decides to return to the boarding house, having no money with her, no idea how to get there. Nevertheless, she bravely overcomes all the difficulties associated with traveling without a ticket, manages to get lost in the forest with a boorish young couple and still get to the boarding house to make peace with her mother.