The script is based on interrogation records and stories of relatives of the little-known Ukrainian anarchist Ivan Krupsky, the film's great-grandfather. Documentary episodes are devoted to paradoxical periods of the hero's life: the leadership of the insurgent detachment, participation in the civil war of the early 1920s, hiding from persecution under the guise of a Soviet policeman, work as a factory builder. The story of the situation of the past is reproduced through the actions of the heroes of the present: modern anarchists, new police officers, students and workers.

The shooting took place in places of specific historical events: Poltava, Gadyachi, Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.