About the title
Gennady Zaitsev is an ordinary teenager in a remote Ural village. He grew up in a large family without a father, but managed to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood and postwar devastation, and went on to become a founding figure of the anti-terrorist unit "Alpha Group." On December 1, 1988, in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), terrorists take 32 children, a teacher, and a bus driver hostage. Under Zaitsev's command, an extremely complex operation is carried out, resulting in the release of all the hostages and the arrest of the terrorists.