Afghanistan, 1989 - Soviet troops have left Afghanistan, but some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of Russian border guards in Tadzhikistan.

An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...