In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

История любви и страсти простого солдата из крестьян, выбившегося своими способностями и усидчивостью в офицеры и аристократки, дочери генерала, на фоне первой мировой войны и революции в России…