The three main characters served together in Afghanistan fifteen years ago, went through a lot there, were in love with one girl, and now, after so much time, they will meet again, but under very unpredictable circumstances.
Sergey Fedotov on murder charges sentenced to imprisonment in a special zone for former officers. The former, in the sense of the demoted, of course, since honor and dignity have not been canceled. The head of this zone was one of his friends from the time of Afghanistan, Kazakh Nurali Aslanbekov. As a result of the storm in the zone, as well as throughout the district, everything is through the ass, there is no communication, there is no light, and even the convicts staged a hostage-taking in the medical unit, taking the wife and son of the chief. Nurali asks for Sergei’s help, since under the circumstances he is actually one of the convicts and, therefore, he will have the opportunity to neutralize the villains, acting from the inside. The plan worked, and as a thank you, Sergey asks Nurali to let him go to the city for a day to see if everything is okay with his wife. The fact that on a date with some prisoners, including Sergei, went close relatives, but because of the storm the bus overturned, and now it is unknown whether they are alive or not. Nurali can't just let Sergey go, despite his absolute trust. Not supposed to. However, humanly, he understands that it is impossible otherwise. Therefore, he decides to gather a group of prisoners to whom relatives were traveling, and personally escort them to the city under escort.
Of course, Nurali, like any boss, has a deputy. A very bad person, constantly trying to shit wherever possible, and waiting for any convenient chance to spoil the name of the boss in the shit, in order to then take his place. And this idea with a stage in the hour when after the storm around the continuous disorder, becomes for Deputy Nurali Boris Yurchenkov just a gift of heaven. So he goes running to report all the big bosses in Moscow.
Meanwhile, the stage, along with the convoy, including Nurali himself and Sergeant Ivochkin, decides to cross the river on a raft. The raft gets into a strong current, falls apart and the group throws someone where. Ivochkin is missing. Nurali suffered a severe concussion and a hint of a broken leg. And now, therefore, the convicts were left alone with the helpless superior, there is a whole country around, I do not want to run, and only officer honor can save the situation. Sergey and the others take the boss to the hospital, and Nurali gives the group three days before the evening verification. If they do not return to the zone in three days, then Nurali will be responsible for them. Sergey gives his word to a friend that everyone in full strength will be in the zone on time.
On the way to the city and back, Sergey’s group will have a lot of adventures. And relatives will have time to see, and the wounded girl will be taken to the hospital, and the well-to-do villagers will be put in place, and the fire will help to extinguish, and even neutralize a dangerous group of prisoners who escaped during the storm from a maximum security prison, who are vying for robberies and robberies. But the hardest fight is the last one. It turned out that the most difficult to make the last steps to the zone. They promised to return in time, but they are trying to stop the same Yurchenkov. After all, if the stage does not appear, Nurali will go on trial, and he, Borya, will take the place of the chief. They should not be able to reach the area alive.
In addition to all this, a commission headed by General Andrei Khomenko was sent from Moscow to conduct an on-site inspection and, if the stage does not return on time, arrest Nurali on the spot, accusing him of facilitating the escape of six prisoners. The problem is that Andrey Khomenko does not want such a development, because together with Nurali and Sergey they fought together in Afghanistan fifteen years ago. Therefore, everyone can only wait and hope for Sergei Fedotov and the word of the officer.
Very good, male TV movie. It is male, although I do not exclude that the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity, he may also like. This movie reminds us that in the world there are still such concepts as honor, justice, honesty, both before oneself and before others, the ability to be responsible for one’s words and actions, worthily carry one’s cross. My favorite scene in the last series is when the zone being staged at the last line in front of the gates encounters Yurchenkov’s detachment, whose order is not to leave anyone alive. And then Grisha Bogorad begins to rightly indignant that, they say, men, we are so fucking rushing back to the zone if they also want to kill us. Maybe, he says, "Well, let's go to such-and-such mom, we'll run away and live a little while until we get caught." To which Sergey replies that, they say, good. But on one condition. You said you'd have to kill me. Or I'll kill anyone who tries to leave. I gave my word to my friend and we will all be back.
It's a manly, officer-like thing. After all, an officer is not a rank or position. It's something much more, it's the trust your country has placed in you. And power has nothing to do with it, whatever it is, it matters what people say. How you lived your life. Poor or rich, successful or not, married and with children or eternal bachelor. It doesn't matter. It is important that they can say about you later that you were a real man, did not fear responsibility and always kept your word, doing everything in fairness. There you go. At the end of watching this film, there is a very correct and pleasant taste, as if you just looked at the instructions for living your life. Strong and truthful.
Finally, I’ll mention the soundtrack. There are only two main ones. Songs of DDT "Smoke" and "War can be children's". Songs that I had never heard before watching this movie. Approach the theme of the picture is absolutely great. Now I keep them in my collection, if you haven't heard them, listen. What a nice view!