Heroic war adventures of an orphan shepherd boy, who saved two Red Army scout soldiers from the pursuit by White Army and as a reward was admitted into the squadron.
In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
A political satire on one of the enemies of the Soviet regime, the leader of the English Labour Party, James Ramsay Macdonald. The plot unfolds at a fast pace, using grotesque satirical techniques to prove that the royal power in England is a fiction.