The film tells about the complex relationship between two chemical scientists. Viktor Sviridov arrived from the province, where he works as an engineer at one of the factories, at the metropolitan institute in order to defend his project related to an urgent scientific problem. However, without the support of a longtime friend Alexei Grekov, he has no chance: most members of the academic council are opposed to his project and himself. But Grekov is also forced to choose between his wife's scientific career and obligations to another.

The film is set in the 50s in a town located on the 101st kilometer from Moscow, where in Soviet times were sent from the capital of the unreliable — political and criminal. The hero of the picture Lenka gets into the company of criminals. Local leader Kostya Konovalov offers him to participate in robberies. On the other hand, people from the police and the state security service persuade Lenka to write denunciations…

On the last months of life of the famous revolutionary, politician, President of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Republic.
"Our film - an attempt to show how the ideas of communism, psychology, infatuation that turns people into merciless killers. The idea of burning the Communists in all human and for them there is no specific living people around, and there are only symbols of the idea - classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, bloodsucking landlords and poor peasants ... One of the brightest representatives of the ideas of communism in the world was Leon Trotsky's birthday which was accomplished by the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. " Edward Volodarsky.