Commissar Selivanov and several Red Army soldiers manage to escape from captivity. They are being pursued by the White Guards and Basmachi, led by a colonel who was released on parole by Selivanov.
Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the “Copper Riot”, is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin.
Soviet propaganda film. It is 1917. Sergei Shelekhov, a graduate of a junker school, is sent to Sevastopol. His acquaintance with the Bolshevik Zinchenko largely determines Sergei's attitude to the political situation in Russia on the eve of the revolution. The hero joins the Bolshevik sailors and stands up to defend Sevastopol from the Provisional Government.
