The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.
The trial of political prisoners is taking place in the Kutaisi prison. They face hanging or life imprisonment. In order to release them from prison, a party figure, nicknamed "Chagara" and a revolutionary woman, "Vardo", aka Nato Nakashidze-Volfisa, come to the city. She rents a house near the prison, supposedly to open a knitting workshop. Will they be able to escape?
A detachment of Red Army soldiers is ambushed, from where only the boy can escape.
