Once a servant, a lonely herdsman in the mountain, in times of ruffians and murderer occupation - Maksim, in the name of dark political conceptions, is terrorizing a few villages in an isolated mountain area. Under the black-marketeer disguise, a city woman keeps constant contact between the town and the mountain village and organizes a resistance movement. Falling in love with her by chance, Maksim imagines that city woman wants gold, and assigns five times more job to a murderer in order to get the money. Maksim's accomplice - Maksim the boy, discovers the woman's role. Maksim the murderer goes to town to get his revenge. Lonely man Maksim dies in crossfire.