Years of stagnation. Komsomol leaders are living high and wallowing in debauchery and drunkenness. The first secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, Nikolai Shumilin, is promoted to a leadership position in the city committee.
After a drinking party organized for this event, the banner disappears from the district committee building. Now Shumilin's career hangs by a thread.
