The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centred life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?
Despite the restoration of Soviet power in the area, Basmachis continue to arrive from across the border, bringing death and destruction to peaceful villages. One of the bands of rebels is led by Khairulla who is pitted against the militsiya (local militia) leader Maxumov. At first it seems hopeless for Maxumov as the rebels capture most of his men, winning them over to his side. He has only one strategy left; to give himself up, and try to explain to the people that Khairulla has deceived them, turning the soldiers back to revolution. Later in pursuit of his enemy, he chases Khairulla across a river. He has only one bullet left -- the seventh, and he must not miss his target!
별장에 있는 과학자 크리스 켈빈에게 연구소로부터 비디오 테이프가 전달된다. 연구소는 우주 정거장이 보내온 비디오 테이프를 보며 혹성 솔라리스에게 무슨 일이 벌어지고 있다는 결론을 내리고, 그 정거장에 크리스 켈빈을 보내기로 한 것이다. 우주 정거장에 온 켈빈은 여기에서 두 과학자 스나우토와 사리보리우스를 만난다. 물리학자 기바리안은 이미 자살한 후였다. 켈빈은 여기서 혹성 솔라리스의 생각하는 바다에 대해서 듣게 된다. 혹성 솔라리스에 접근하면 여기에 근접한 사람과 솔라리스가 정신작용을 일으켜 상대방의 기억 깊이 잠겨있는 과거를 물질화한다는 것이다. 이후 독극물 주사로 자살한 크리스 켈빈의 아내가 그의 앞에 물질이 되어 나타나는데..
