The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Valeriy Kropotov is CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad who is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government: building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.

列兵热尼亚，是莫斯科来的有教养的小伙子，他出院返回前线。他专心埋头于读书，两耳不闻窗外事。他经常会制造一些麻烦，让他的领导——中尉感到头疼。一次，热尼亚偶遇部队女通信兵热尼亚奇卡，并爱上了她。热尼亚奇卡全然不知，只把热尼亚当做大男孩，后来才逐渐爱上他。不久，热尼亚奇卡调往师部，两人在红军攻克柏林后才再次相遇。他们高兴地在一所大楼里玩起了捉迷藏游戏，熟料一间房子里的德军杀害了热尼亚奇卡，热尼亚也消灭了最后负隅顽抗的德国鬼子。最后的胜利到来，热尼亚又回到快乐的世界，只是没有了浪漫的爱情。