[1][2][3] The film begins in 1914 on the eve of the outbreak of World War I set during Gavrilo Princip's departure before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

He put all his money on the Russian football team which lost to the Germans in Stockholm in 1912 with a crushing score of 0:16.

Anitsa receives famous poets at her home, at one evening it is possible to see Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova and Vladislav Khodasevich.

After reading an ad in a newspaper that the British, who work in St. Petersburg, create their own football teams, the brothers also go for try-outs, but they are not taken in.

Shust makes a deal with the Tartar Torgash, who calls a high price (140 rubles) because he has unpaid debts.