On January 27, 1924, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet people and the workers of other countries said goodbye to their leader with a silence of five minutes. Factories, trains, steamboats and cars came to a standstill. At this moment, an American dealer, rushing towards a lucrative business, orders the Chinese driver, who stopped the car, to continue on his way...
The film includes footage from the funeral of V.I. Lenin. It is worth noting that on January 22, 29, simultaneously with the release of this film, another one-part film "Exactly four" ("Five minutes") was released, directed by a graduate of the National Customs Committee - B. Kanter. The plots of the films were distinguished only by the fact that in the first "hurried to make a deal" - an American, and in the second - an Englishman.