Eleonora Milova

1918. Despite the conclusion of peace between Soviet Russia and Germany, provocations continue on the border. Soldier Yakub Kovalenok returns to his native village. At the fair, he tries to buy a horse; he’s ready to pay anything for it, even to sell a grenade. Some young nobleman snatches it away and, running off, leaves Yakub a red bicycle. In the village, Yakub finds out that he has the bicycle of Stas Dobuzhinsky, a courier for Kurnevich’s gang, which has long been being tracked down by a detachment of Red Army soldiers. The Bolshevik Alena recognizes the traitor’s bicycle and requisitions it, despite Yakub’s explanations. Outraged by such lawlessness, Yakub decides to seek justice and writes a letter of complaint to Lenin himself...

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.

The old fisherman Vechora has lived all his life in his native village, everything here is familiar and dear to him. He invested his labor into this land and defended it from enemies in difficult times.

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally respected.

Two fugitives are making their way through the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans. Their goal is to find a partisan unit or cross the front line. One of them is a sixteen-year-old boy, Stepan, a local resident. The other is a Soviet officer who escaped captivity, whom Stepan miraculously saved from death.

On the participation of the intelligentsia in the revolution and post-revolutionary transformations of the Soviet country.

1920s. The Krestyanskaya Pravda correspondent comes to the village where was an attempt on the young selkor. He learns about the gang of kulak members, led by the deputy chairman of the village council.