Andrey goes to work at a sawmill for the first time as a director and immediately decides to reduce staff. Ashikhmin is against it, for him every employee is a person, not a figure in the estimate. Kolya has a toothache, but he tries not to show it to anyone. Vika bites Kolya and persuades him to go to the dentist. Marina finds out that Vika knows her husband better and becomes furious. The employees of the sawmill find out that Andrey tried to fire them.