The first, incredibly hard years of forming the USSR and strengthening the people’s power under the lead of Feliks Dzierżyński. The action is set around the Great Famine and the film clearly defines who’s responsible for it as well as divides the people into the good and the bad, whereas the first ones are naturally representatives of the political party structures.
The year 1921. Citizens of the newly established soviet republic suffer from lack of food. The top priority of the authorities is to arrange cereal transport for Moscow and the Volga region. Feliks Dzierżyński is appointed the People's Commissary responsible for communication. His first assignment is to put together a group of specialists. There’s a strong sabotage movement fighting actively with the young state. The Lubocev’s group blows up a railway bridge, depriving the starving regions of food supplies. Dzierżyński arrives at the spot. He orders to put rails on a frozen river. Lubocev’s people shoot at the train transporting the food for the people of the Volga region collected in Warsaw. The makeshift railway through the frozen river collapses under the stock’s weight. The only possibility is to roll carriages without a steam engine. A terrorist network operating in Moscow is exposed and eliminated. The testimony of its arrested members shows broad connections of counter- revolutionaries with the Western governments. The unmasking process also brings about a change in the attitude of foreign entrepreneurs. They no longer support the anti-Soviet movement but are now more willing to provide support for Moscow. Ordered by Dzierżyński, Nikolajev prepares a bold project of improving the Soviet communication system.
