Late 1920. The war in Crimea is over. The remnants of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia were evacuated to Constantinople, they were temporarily located on the Gallipoli Peninsula. But life in exile is hard, and many would like to return to their homeland. Among them was Lieutenant General Yakov Slashchev-Krymsky, convicted by the officers' court of honor and demoted to the rank and file by Baron Wrangel for harsh criticism of his actions in Crimea. Vegetating in loneliness and poverty, Slashchev unexpectedly received a chance to return when his old acquaintance Pavel Koltsov, sent to Gallipoli on a special mission by Dzerzhinsky himself, came to him...