The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler who studied the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania.
1920. The enemy of Soviet Russia is not broken everywhere. Basmachi gangs are rampaging through Turkestan. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and warriors, incites the Red Army soldiers to counter-revolutionary rebellion...
Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.
The events take place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The commander of the special forces detachment "Thunder" Fedor was sent to the German rear to carry out special missions...
