The war is on a distant frontier, the house is empty, the father and eldest son are at the front, and the mother and child lead a seemingly ordinary life, but the situation is heating up, and the child's games are getting tougher.

Father and eldest son at the front, mother and youngest son live in apartment away from the fighting. The mother complains about the prices, watches TV and tries to raise her son while he makes a metaphorical game out of soldiers. The father comes from the front, the family is almost reunited, everyone is waiting only for their son and are glad that the growing child is already so initiative and patriotic, but the boy's games are getting tougher. It turns out that a strange thing happened with his father in the war and now he is declared military a criminal and their apartment is arrested. A notice of the death of the eldest son arrives in the mailbox, and the youngest son gets excited and kills his friend.