About the series
USSR, 1938. In a train compartment, thief Senka Pepel meets Red Army captain Igor Petrov, who is facing arrest. Suddenly, the Red Army officer gets a fantastic chance to avoid certain death: he swaps clothes and documents with Pepel and takes the thieves' common fund. But Petrov has changed not only his own life but also the fate of the woman he loves, Rita, who now faces searching for her husband, agonizing waiting, and a meeting with Pepel, whom everyone now mistakes for Petrov.