Twenty-four years after the last meeting, the son visits his mother in an abandoned village. But the mother does not recognize her son.

In the evening, a writer meets a boy crying in the park, who tells him that while playing a game he gave his word of honour to guard a gunpowder storage shed and that he couldn't leave his post. The writer helps the boy to find an honourable way out of the situation.

The revolution of 1905. The crowd, which is rebelling against the authorities, has seized the policeman and is leading him to be executed. But then, above all the screams, a child's cry is heard in the middle of the crowd. The policeman's son, having made his way through the crowd, throws himself on his father's neck. He changes the policeman's death sentence to freedom, restoring humanity to both the crowd and his father.