July 1921. The peasant uprising under the leadership of Antonov was almost defeated. The surviving Antonovites hid in the forests in the southeast of the Tambov province. They are being hunted by the “communist squad” together with the regimental commissar Oleg Mezentsev. He wants to take the rebels prisoner, but they suddenly have more serious enemies - a gang of the one-eyed Tyryshka. Tyryshka confronts everyone who does not hear the distant, mysterious hum. This hum beckons, enchants, captivates, leads deeper into the forest - to where it is not ideas and people that rule, but the beginningless anger of the bandit Tyryshka...