Based on the novel by Evgeny Nosov, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky. About the inhabitants of a Russian village who went to defend their homeland in the first days of the war.

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara - the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of 1921. The Samara GubChK brilliantly exposes the counter-revolutionary bandit conspiracy against the Soviet government. The main characters are real people. Levin, the chairman of the Cheka, was originally named Byrne and was later repressed in the 1930s.