Mikhail Matveev

Amidst hunger, devastation, typhus, and complete chaos, a young soldier, Eumen, maimed by the civil war, and a girl, Maria, travel in a dilapidated freight car. Thus, on the terrible road of life, two lonely people begin to develop deep and pure feelings...

A young master, Vladimir Dubrovsky, comes to the estate to visit his father, who has long been in litigation with his neighbor, the despotic landowner Troekurov. Having seriously insulted Dubrovsky Sr., Troekurov tries to go to peace, but the proud old man is adamant.

A former officer of the Separate Border Guard Corps accepts an offer to head the customs service of the young Soviet state.

From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.