1938, Soviet Russia. There were two of them, both strong and courageous. But one fateful day, Igor Petrov, the commander of a Red Army unit, is compelled to exchange ID papers with a satecracker known as Ash. The incident leads both men to start their lives completely anew. For the following ten years, Petrov and Ash will live their lives in the fear of discovery. They will commit acts of bravery and insidious crimes in the name of the other so that the thiet becomes a hero, while the commander turns into a violent outlaw. The only thing they have in common is a tragic, painful love for the same woman. For ten years they will each encounter death and destruction before fate brings them together once more. There will be two of them again - strong and courageous, ready to fight for their love.. with the knowledge that retribution awaits them.

Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeny Mironov, Elena Lyadova, Sergey Garmash, Chulpan Khamatova, Andrey Smolyakov, Pyotr Mamonov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Irina Rozanova, Sergey Chonishvili, Aleksandr Dyachenko, Yuriy Utkin, Oleg Khamitov, Nikita Rogov, Ivan Chikurchikov, Rinat Mutallapov, Romuald Makarenko, Ivan Svechkov, Dmitriy Girev, Mikhail Izotov, Karina Andolenko, Oleg Novikov, Konstantin Balakirev, Anton Kitashev, Aleksandr Esaulov, Mikhail Razumovsky, Evgeny Chupin, Kuzma Stomachenko, Dmitriy Sutyrin, Michael Volchek, Dmitry Belov, Galina Mochalova, Sergey Frolov, Mikhail Krylov, Aleksandr Nesterov, Andrey Shimko, Sergey Malyugov, Sergey Sintsov, Ольга Румянцева, Evgeniy Novosyolov, Denis Eliseev, Mikhail Solovyov, Margarita Litovchenko, Vitaliy Grigoryev, Vladimir Denisov, Yuliya Marchenko, Viktor Grigoryuk, Vitaliy Gorev, Anastasiya Zabirova, Igor Golovin, Yuriy Tuzov, Dmitriy Kochkin, Konstantin Smirnov