A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.
The love story of the NKVD lieutenant and the connected UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) on the eve of the end of World War II is a conflict of love and duty. There is a third hero in this story - this is an indifferent employee of the NKVD. For many years, he completely voluntarily helps the OUN-UPA, and waits for who will eventually become the winner, to whom, in the end, he will devote the rest of his life ...
The heroic struggle of the Nezhin underground workers under the leadership of the hero of the USSR, the blind Yakov Batyuk.
