According to Valentine Pikul's story Go and Don't Sin.

The melodrama of the life of pre-revolutionary Russia. A girl from a poor family retains an elderly noble gentleman, but leaves her benefactor for the sake of a young vulgar gum. The humiliating romance leads the heroine to the murder of her lover. However, the jury justifies it.

The former Nicholas serviceman was detained and imprisoned with three prisoners. During their stay there, the boys became friends. By fate, they managed to escape during transportation and find themselves near the hometown of Mykola, where they all went together. The village was already liberated from the Germans. Everyone rejoices at the end of the war, the victory ... But Nicholas notes that strange events are happening. Peasants with fright speak of curse and unclean power.

Gradually it turns out that in the forest remained undone groups of policemen who did not have time to leave with the Germans. The police rob the peasants, kill the Red Army, conduct sabotage. Nicholas entered into an unequal battle with traitors. It turned out that traitors are in the village and among former friends and relatives.

Nicholas and his comrades opposed the underdogs, and they won! .. But strange, mystical events continue. And it soon became clear that during the retreat, the Nazis hid boxes with looted values ​​near the village. And the detachment of the Germans secretly returned behind them through the front line. And now Nicholas will have to confront the remains of the police, the detachment of the Germans, and the traitors in the village – to anyone who wants to find and get the looted treasures! ..