Yelena Velikanova

The student, Rifle, has managed to seduce his professor's wife, Bomber, an average working guy, has bought a factory and Bullet, the casino lover, is hiding from creditors. They all share a common path and conscription. In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.

The events take place in the 70s of the last century, in the real country of the USSR and with real Soviet people: workers and state leaders. A patriotic film telling about how and how the country lived in those years, telling with love about the generation of fathers, about their working days and holidays.

A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...