Events unfolding during the second Chechen campaign on the border of Chechnya and the Stavropol Territory. Next to the village where ordinary people live, there is a military unit, where ordinary Russian soldiers serve. The division of the sappers, consisting mainly of boys recruits, is commanded by a young lieutenant, who once dreamed of becoming a pilot. He receives an order to demine the former grain field, where no one has sown for more than 10 years. Military and local residents call him "dead" ...