Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village...
Afghanistan, 1989 - Soviet troops have left Afghanistan, but some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of Russian border guards in Tadzhikistan.