First-grader Valera Ovechkin, who has a strict mother and a strict teacher, is in love with a ninth-grader Olenka. Mom once, when Valerik was in kindergarten, having learned that he had kissed a girl, threatened the amorous Ovechkin with a colony if he kissed anyone else. Valera believes in the possibility of punishment, but, having fallen in love with Olenka, she breaks the taboos.