A film about the fate of a pilot who left aviation for good after the incident with the American spy pilot Powers. Chronicle. Moscow city. May 1, 1960. Demonstration of workers in Red Square. Party and government leaders on the podium of the Mausoleum. The convoy brings into the courtroom Senior Lieutenant of the United States Air Force F.G. Powers, who was shot down on May 1, 1960 over the city of Sverdlovsk. The story of BG Ayvazyan, one of the two surviving Soviet pilots who took part in the interception flight of the American pilot. Perm cemetery. Wife, friends at the grave of pilot S. Safronov, who died on May 1, 1960. Perm airfield. The pilots run to the planes.