Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.
Peter, who killed his beloved out of jealousy, twenty years later meets a girl, into whose soul the spirit of the mother - the hero's victim - has infiltrated. Having bewitched Peter, the young witch forces him to commit violence and murder.
Among the usual cases, talking with drunkards, a junior cop finds time for the neighbor girl Alla, who fell under the influence of the leader of the thieves' gang. Seeing her with a young man, suspected of theft, he tries to detain him.
Young homeless man Luke is not going to obey the laws established by his homeless colleagues, as well as the arbitrariness of the foreman when he finds himself in forced labor. But only resistance to his own kind does not give Luke anything: without housing and means of subsistence, and, finally,...