The hero of the film is in prison, and they are trying to knock out a testimony from him where there is a lot of money - in which country, city, bank, bank account ... And the smart, handsome and courageous Abdulov brazenly and insultingly mocks the investigator and reads Onegin in his cell "a Vietnamese cellmate giving him a massage. Then the senior investigator, the wife of the Duma deputy, who does not feel love for her husband, personally undertakes for him.

After leaving the hospital, Sergeant Katsuba, who has bid farewell to frontline service, travels to a provincial town to teach military science to cadets. However, his relationship with the 17-year-old boys does not go well: they consider their instructor to be unfair and overly critical...

A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the war was almost over.