The film is about the events that occurred during the Afghan war. In the center of the plot - the uprising in the camp Badaber. Spring 1985. The mission of the GRU intelligence officer Yuri Nikitin gets into Pakistan the fortress of Badaber. Nikitin must collect evidence of the existence here of the Mujahideen training center under the leadership of the CIA. After completing a dangerous task, Nikitin sees in the fortress a group of Russian prisoners of war, among whom he recognizes his friend Michael, the son of his commander General Kolesov, who for several years was considered missing. Nikitin decides to remain and save doomed to death guys..