Vadim Platov finally decided to legalize his relationship with his beloved girl Nadya. The wedding promised to be fun and reckless. The guests in a noisy group went first to the registry office, and then for a walk along the river on a speedboat. But a tragedy occurred. The boat was captured by escaped prisoners. The soldiers of the internal troops who appeared on the shore opened fire on the escaped prisoners and accidentally killed Vadim’s young wife. Beside himself with grief and rage, he snatched a machine gun from one of the soldiers and began indiscriminate shooting, as a result of which innocent people died... Vadim was sentenced to fifteen years. Before being sent to a distant Siberian colony, he promised that he would find and punish those fugitive prisoners who ruined his life...