This deeply patriotic work is dedicated to the civil war in the Far East, the struggle of the defenders of the Soviet republic against the interventionists. In the center of the novel is the Komsomol leader Vitaly Bonivur. This is a young man who has passed the harsh school of the underground, who knows how not only to light hearts with a hot word, but also to fight the enemy with a rifle in his hands, organize and inspire people to fight.