Time and scene of action - civil war, small city of a front strip just released by Red Army. But in the city and its vicinities white gangs at support of former officials and local clergy still conduct blasting work. The disguised security officers under a type of gang Knysh rush into city and, "to convert" white, provoke "soyuznichkov" to the open joint actions. Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.