Plot: Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?
Alternative Plot: While the battles of the Bolshevik Revolution grow increasingly brutal and violent, a film crew carries on with business as usual in the Russian countryside. The star of the production, Olga Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya (Elena Solovei), remains completely oblivious to the atrocities that are being committed in her country, but Victor Pototsky (Rodion Nakhapetov), the film's cameraman, is all too aware. As a Bolshevik, Pototsky wants Voznesenskaya and everyone else to know about the revolution.
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