The conflict with the plant owner makes Tade and Gijua to leave the town and return to their home village. There, Gijua fells in love with Tade’s sister Tasya. A day before their wedding, Tasya is taken by the people of Prince Rostom. Two friends rescue her from the Prince’s estate and launch a resistance struggle against the local usurpers. Revolted peasants kill the prince while two friends escape to the city and become active in a revolutionary movement.

During the meeting in the Kolkhidmsheni division, they will decide to strengthen the work in the highway area, headed by Taras Japaridze, before the rains begin, and transfer Archil Tsanava's brigade here as well. Archil considers this decision to be unfair. But his fiancee, engineer Nani Tophuria, also opposes him. upset Archil leaves the meeting and the construction as well. Autumn rains begin. The overflowing Rion threatens to tear down the entire construction.

In the distant mountains, in a Serbian village, the occupiers are robbing the population and shooting the rebels. The villagers flee into the forest and form a partisan detachment. The detachment mines the road so that the punitive detachment cannot reach the village. But the partisans do not have Bickford's belt. The bomber faces inevitable death. Young Marko undertakes this task.

Soviet border guards are fighting a gold smugglers near the Chinese and Mongolian borders.