Two great aircraft designers, Tupolev and Sikorsky, meet after many years of separation at the Paris Air Show. Once upon a time, one of them stayed in the new Russia, the other left it forever. Different destinies, different paths to the same goal, the conquest of the sky.

Five middle-aged men already converged in one platoon - people of different professions and different social status are called up as privates for three-month reserve training...