After the defeat of the 1905 revolution, the underground fighter Gio is sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. However, he manages to escape eight years later. Having lost his wife and daughter during this time, he decides to take revenge on the gendarmes. Gio's younger brother joins him in the mountains...
Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A penniless girl marries a pawnbroker. The spouses do not understand each other because of the difference in age and social status.
The main character is an executioner from the 1930s who carries out the sentences of the Triumvirate. The gravity of his case follows him everywhere - in his family, among his acquaintances, and does not give him rest, until he himself becomes a victim of the system he serves.
