The plot tells about the events in Moscow during the coup in August 1991. Armored personnel carriers, tanks, trucks are moving along the streets of Moscow. People are building barricades, trolleybuses are blocking the passage. People gather at the building of the House of Soviets of the RSFSR. President of the RSFSR BN Yeltsin climbs the tank, talks with soldiers, descends from the tank and speaks to the audience; among those present - People's Deputy of the USSR OD Kalugin, bodyguard of Boris N. Yeltsin - AV Korzhakov. Journalists and reporters at Vnukovo airport. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR I.S. Silaev, Vice-President A.V. Rutskoi, member of the Security Council of the USSR V.V.Bakatin, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR E.M. Primakov and other members of a special commission heading to Foros in order to to take the President of the USSR and his family to Moscow, they climb the plane. Airplane in the air.