...In the village of Malaya Starogradovka, which is located in the so-called gray zone, only two people remained to live - a forty-nine-year-old pensioner Sergei Sergeyich and his former classmate Pashka. And they, having absolutely opposite views on life, are forced to put up with each other, although the Ukrainian military comes to visit one, and the separatists come to the other. Sergeyich's main concern is how and where to take his bees away from the war with the onset of spring - all six hives. Take it to a place where they don't shoot, so that later the honey does not have a taste of war. Having gathered on the road, the beekeeper himself does not yet imagine what trials await him and his bees. After a not entirely successful stop near Zaporozhye, he decides to go with bees to the Crimea, to a Tatar, whom he met more than twenty years ago at a congress of beekeepers. He cannot even imagine that the summer spent in the Crimea will teach him not to trust not only people, but also his own bees.