Starley paratrooper Alexander Petrenko is not used to sitting in the rear. Having barely recovered from a serious wound, he goes to Afghanistan again - he has his own scores to settle with the “spirits”. Following him, in order to be closer to her beloved, the nurse Galina, nicknamed Aphrodite, goes... A carefully developed secret operation almost becomes the last for the starley. Finding himself between life and death, Alexander is saved by Galina...But at what cost?...