A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.

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.

Story of combrig Ivanov who wished to marry a prayers' daughter.