The script is based on the autobiographical story of Gennady Beglov.
The year is 1948. The young director Viktor Kostrov is arrested following a denunciation by the father of his beloved. The Beria Inquisition, the horrors of camp life, the revenge of thieves and criminals - this is the background against which the heroes act: a sadistic overseer, a camp "godfather", Victor's frightened bride and her father, an NKVD officer ...
