Nikolay Ivanov

The year is 1942. Major Toporkov, who escaped from captivity, makes his way to a partisan camp surrounded by Germans. The major asks the squad leader to give him a wagon train with weapons to make his way to the concentration camp: the prisoners are preparing an uprising.

A young doctor serving cotton growers goes to the city. On the highway, when trying to overtake a motorcade, the traffic police stops the car. The events that take place next are an accurate and witty model of a life permeated through and through with absurd relationships, ridiculous demands and inexplicable prohibitions...

Is it possible to escape from fate if you live quietly and unnoticed, without causing harm to anyone? It turns out it's impossible. Thus, the arrival of a famous singer and a popular TV journalist entails fatal and unpredictable events.

Political farce. Soviet power is compared to a symbolic "Red Train" without a steering wheel bringing happiness to people.