After one horse racing Sunday the body of a jockey is found on the racetrack. Was it an accident or a murder connected to bet fixing?

Andrei's parents are categorically against the intention of their son, yesterday's schoolboy, to marry a girl pregnant by him. It is not easy to make the right choice, but Andrei still marries his beloved.

Nadia wanted to say a lot to her spree husband, but did not know whether to decide. The main thing is that the drinker and all of a positive. What changes, it can be forgiven. So she was ready only to scare the faithful with a rolling pin, but instead of him a strange man burst into the apartment — drunk and all negative. After receiving a rolling pin on the head, he rested until the morning, after which he was expelled. Nadia did not think that she would ever see the night guest again, but very soon he appeared... together with the police, as a suspect in the murder. The only hope Alexandra had an alibi that could give him Hope... And hope can be a choice that must be made between "exemplary" husband and suspicious of a stranger with bad habits…

About the establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine and the struggle of Chekists against nationalist gangs. The events take place in the 1920s.