While the battles of the Bolshevik Revolution grow increasingly brutal and violent, a film crew carries on with business as usual in the Russian countryside. The star of the production, Olga Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya (Elena Solovei), remains completely oblivious to the atrocities that are being committed in her country, but Victor Pototsky (Rodion Nakhapetov), the film's cameraman, is all too aware. As a Bolshevik, Pototsky wants Voznesenskaya and everyone else to know about the revolution.