While Moscow hosts the 1980 Olympics, a serene life unfolds at a summer camp on the Volga River - mornings of exercise, ghost stories around the fire, and first loves.

While the Olympics-80 thunders in Moscow, a serene life flows in the summer camp on the Volga - with morning exercises, horror stories around the campfire and first loves. But evil is not dormant: it seems that there are vampires among the pioneers. Will an ordinary Soviet teenager Valery be able to distinguish the living from the dead in a world where falsehood and boredom reign?