Three elderly veterans of a ruthless and bloody war spend the rest of their lives in a veteran’s retirement home and do everything to push away thoughts of the coming end. To do this, they joke, invent various pranks, and, ultimately, decide to escape and become free like birds.

The main character of the film is Alexei Kuznetsov, the son of writer Anatoly Kuznetsov, who witnessed the horrors of Babi Yar, the Kureniv tragedy and the Holodomor in 1933 and published the novel Babi Yar with scandal. The writer had been hiding abroad for ten years and had died mysteriously a few months before his 50th birthday.

Almost half a century after the resonant emigration of his father, Alexey goes on a journey to places related to his life. Seeks to understand his father, to rethink the difficult life conflicts that have fallen to his lot.

According to Ivan Rachada's play There is such a party. Part of the series Challenge to the Gods.

The film takes place in 1918-1924. The main actors – Vladimir Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov. Struggle for power, political intrigue, historical transformation.