In knightly times, the only slap that degraded the dignity of a warrior was a slap in the face of knighthood. Why today knightly honor and dignity are a thing of the past? Why does a once humiliated recruit eventually seek to humiliate another? Why do young boys die in peacetime? What is a non-statutory relationship? And in general, is the modern army a phenomenon, an anomaly of society or a certain regularity? The film provides answers to these and many other questions on specific tragic examples.