A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.
During another attempt to build socialism in a single African country, a detachment of Soviet paratroopers rescues a black boy and takes him to the USSR. The Soviet Union collapsed, and the child grew up in an orphanage, knowing nothing of his origins. But before he left for the army, fate brings...