Gevorg Adamyan is a man of power who enjoys many privileges and is guided throughout his life by the slogan "the purpose justifies the means". This enables him always to stay at the top of the pyramid but, at the same time, gradually ruins him as a person and brings unhappiness to his own family, destroying the lives of his close friends and relatives.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

The victorious path of the Taman army through areas occupied by the white army in the last days of the civil war.