1905. The Russo-Japanese War is coming to an end, and in Russia a revolution is brewing. Japanese intelligence prepared agents from captured Poles and sent them back home along with other prisoners of war. The Police Department found out about this. Lykov, together with gendarmes, has been tasked with identifying and arresting the spies.
During the interrogation, he learns about a group of former soldiers who have banded together to fight tsarism. Their leader is rank-and-file soldier Nikolai Kunitsyn, who received the nickname Kolka-kun in captivity. Charismatic and fearless, a man who has seen a great deal, he invented his own model of a state where peasants will rule. The idea draws in many, and catching such a person is difficult—people help him hide from the police. Lykov begins his search and quickly discovers that the former prisoners are sympathetic to him, and he doesn’t want to put them in jail…