Screen adaptation of the play by V.K.Vinnichenko. The picture was probably not released due to the fire of the studio. The movie is not fully preserved, without inscriptions.

This is a Russian silent feature film by Vladimir Krivtsov, which marked the beginning of the "Russian Golden Series". The film is lost.

In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.

The film depicted the revolutionary events of 1917 and included some documentary footage. The film has not survived.