Sergei, a constructor creates a robot, Robert, as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator.

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.

故事发生在十九世纪四十年代的意大利。亚瑟（奥列格·斯特里仁诺夫 Oleg Strizhenov 饰）是一名虔诚的基督教徒，他非常仰慕神学院的蒙泰里尼神父（Nikolai Simonov 饰），将自己未曾享受过的父爱寄托在他的身上。可是，最终亚瑟发现，蒙泰里尼神父竟然就是当年抛弃自己的亲生父亲，他的信仰崩塌了。
一晃眼13年过去，意大利自由革命如火如荼的进行着，一个外号“牛虻”的青年领袖在运动中格外的活跃，成为了很多年轻人的心灵导师，而这个人就是亚瑟。很快，亚瑟因为遭到了同僚的背叛而锒铛入狱，在狱中，他再一次见到了蒙泰里尼神父，心存最后一丝幻想的亚瑟试图劝说神父和他一起投身革命。