Somewhere people are fighting a horrible war and here in a far-away Siberian village agitation group “Beat the Enemy!”, assembled in a hurry, must raise the patriotic spirit of the local residents. A militiaman Nikonor is responsible for the ideology, a Leningrad singer Vera plays the accordion and sings imitating Lyubov Orlova, while a Moscow painter Vadim draws caricatures of fascists. At a different time and in a different place these people would have never been together.