Three unconnected episodes united by a common theme: the establishment of the Soviet rule in Russia during the civil war of the early 1920s. Depicts dramatic events in simple lives of peasants and soldiers.

The characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.

This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.

The story about duplicates in the time of revolution.

Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.

Engineer Cochin creates a new aircraft project. Foreign spies are trying to steal the plane's blueprints, but the Soviet secret services are not asleep.