The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.
Love strengthens and makes wiser Yulka, who has lost her way in life. She wants to make her own life on the outskirts of a big city. Shurka Kuksa and Kolya the fisherman help Yulka build a house in exchange for certain services. Kolya the fisherman is married, with a mother-in-law and a modern wife at home, but he is drawn to this simple woman...
