April 1983, Afghanistan. US State Department employee Cyrus Kononoff receives an extremely important task: to set a gang of field commander Hekmatyar against the small village of Ishkashim, which is located in the Pyanj River valley. The purpose of the action: to completely slaughter the population of the village. For what? The fact is that the village is located on the territory of the USSR. The states are going to present this atrocity as an action of the Soviets and accuse the Union of genocide of its own people. Hekmatyar, in dire need of money, moves to the border with a large detachment of dushmans. But Soviet counterintelligence officers are already ready to fight back and are preparing a trap for the gang...