Civil war. Residents of the Ukrainian village of Ostapovka decide to take a neutral position and wait out the war. But not everyone agrees with this point of view on current events. Young people unite and join the ranks of the fighters of the revolution...

Ukraine, 1919. Bolshevik counter-intelligence agents work to stop an uprising by White Russian nationalist-monarchist counterrevolutionaries. A young countess finds herself caught between her family and class allegiance and burgeoning Communist sympathies inflamed by a chance meeting with a handsome young Ukrainian chekist.