From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

Two detectives are fighting a criminal gang which is steeling goods from the abandoned radioactive area.

Silent serious people buy weapons. They are taking him by a caravan of trucks through Moscow. One of them changes into new clothes and leaves the others for his beloved girlfriend, who lives in the capital.