Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining public support and dragging the country into new war with Germany.
In the distant city of Blagoveshchensk, a father and his two sons, Rodka and Kostya, live together. After graduating from college, Kostya works as a surgeon and suffocates from the "greyness" of others, and 15-year-old Rodka suffers from the inability to help people. One day, a young woman appears in their house, whom Kostya brings.
Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.
