A story of two friends: Gordi, strict law obeying citizen, who wants to secure the future of his daughter Alexandra and his eldery days, and Arno, former Legionaire, a man with no God, nor law. We discover that Alexandra is in fact Arno's daugther, that Gordi is not respecting the laws, and that Arno in fact has one law – his given word. He gave a promise to Alexandra's dying mother, that he will look after her and Gordi; he delivers the promised to his own, bloody way.
2 August 1903, on a night of the revolution, Manoil, the only son of a bourgeois family decides to go to the battle. His father and his wife want to stop him!