Oleg Kuvayev

Ensign-border guard Kalitkin, having retired due to shell shock, works as a guide for a scientific expedition in the border zone. One day, noticing violators in the border zone, Kalitkin without hesitation enters into an unequal battle with the enemy...

It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.

The film is about goodness and the strength of the human spirit. "I will discover the homeland of the bird, and people will believe that there is goodness..." wrote the Russian geographer Shavanosov, a dreamer and romantic who paid with his life for discovering the nesting place of the pink gull in the Kolyma region. The protagonist of the film, Alexander Ivakin, dreams of becoming a traveler, finding traces of Shavanosov, continuing his work, and seeing the pink gull.

In a remote forest by the lake, a small geological team is working. A student intern named Lyuska flies in from Moscow and jokingly declares herself a queen, appointing three guys as her knights...

Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia.