Cossack Maxim Soroka, captured, comes to Death with the intention of taking his life. However, Maxim is not going to go out of this world so much, and he is even more worried not for himself, but for the lives of his brothers, to whom Death threatens to come after him. So Maxim Soroka resorts to various tricks. He puzzles Death's head with the question of where he will go: to heaven or to hell? In the course of the debate, several controversial stories of the Cossack's life emerge…