You cannot escape from a woman, just like from death. Neither years, nor distances, nor the dictatorship of the proletariat have power over true love... The Cavalier of St. George, Captain Graevsky, is looking for his beloved in the revolutionary chaos, the memory of whom neither the horrors of war, nor the bitterness of parting, nor the burning poison of betrayal could erase. Next to him are his fighting friends - the former circus athlete Strashilin and the conservatory student Parshin, who along with his fingers lost all hopes for a career as a pianist. The roads of the revolution are thorny and difficult, hunger, cold, death and arbitrariness of the authorities are everywhere. And in order not to disappear, to survive and remain human, the officers are forced to take up arms. Well, they know how to stand up for themselves. Living with wolves is like a wolf... Alas, it would be good if it were with wolves. With comrades...