The film tells about the first attempt of the federal troops to seize the city of Grozny, when the Maykop brigade consisting of two motorized rifle battalions was thrown into the fire of the First Chechen War, unleashed by the Yeltsin regime. War, in which the execution of orders was often a real crime, in which the soldiers did not understand why and for whom they were killed. The film features unique video recordings, radio conversations, eyewitness memories.