Vasily Ignatich

Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.

Partos Alekseevich Paramonov (Paramosha) worked in the circus as a clown. His wife died and he began to drink too much. Paramoshi left a porcelain figurine on a golden pedestal from a past life. Once there was a phone call and a woman's voice, invited the old man to speak at the bottom of the city. Paramosha went to a stop and waited a long time for the coveted black Mercedes from the city hall, but the call was just an insidious ploy of friends who wanted to lure Paramosha out of the apartment and take possession of the figurine.

1985年、旧ソ連初の宇宙ステーション、サリュート7と地球との交信が突如途絶えて、サリュート7は漂流を始め、このままでは地球に墜落する恐れも生じる非常事態に。やむなくソ連政府は、宇宙船を新たに打ち上げてサリュート7と手動でドッキングさせ、その原因究明と修復作業に当たることを決断。かくして、熟練の技師ヴィクトルと既に退役していたパイロットのウラジーミルの2人が、この決死のミッションに挑むこととなる。