The film tells about the arduous years of the Russian Civil War and portrays the fate of the Turbin family, which falls into a cycle of sad events of the winter of 1918-1919 in Kiev.

The protagonist Alexei Turbin is a military physician and has seen and experienced a lot during the three years of the First World War.

Many of them go to the service of Hetman Skoropadsky and his moderate regime under the German protectorate since they consider it a lesser evil to the Red Terror that has been noted in Kiev against the officers and the intelligentsia by the Bolsheviks.

However, Germany loses the war, Skoropadsky flees with the Germans, and a few Russian officers and junker (cadets) remain the only force that can stand in the way of Symon Petliura's followers from coming to Kiev.

[2] The series has received negative comments from all sides, with the alterations of Bulgakov's novel and the actors' acting skills being particularly criticized.