The plot tells of the events in Moscow during the coup attempt in August 1991. Armored personnel carriers, tanks, trucks moving through the streets of Moscow. People are building barricades, trolley travel cover. People gather at the House of the Soviets of the RSFSR. The President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin lifted the tank, talking to soldiers, down from the tank and playing to the crowd, and among those present - Deputy of the USSR A. D. Kalugin, a bodyguard Boris Yeltsin - A. Korzhakov. Journalists and reporters at Vnukovo airport. Chairman of the RSFSR Council of Ministers I. Silaev, Vice President A. Rutskoi, a member of the security council of the USSR VV Bakatin, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Yevgeny Primakov and other members of the special committee, who goes to the Foros order to deliver the President of the USSR and his family to Moscow, go up the ramp. Aircraft in the air.