Poland of the late 1980's. A drafted soldier named Marcin Kroll desertion after his brother-in-arms kills himself because of being bullied by the longer-in-service soldiers. One of the unit's superiors, Lieutenant Arek, is given an order to bring Marcin back to the unit before the prosecutors take over the case. The Lieutenant meets Marcin's younger sister Marta, his wife Agata and his best friend Kuba Berger, who is about to go abroad. Together with not-intelligent soldier Wiaderny they decide to join the search. Finally, Arek manages to capture Kroll and realizes that he joined the army voluntarily due to finding his wife cheating on him with Berger. To redeem himself, Berger plans to get Marcin back from the soldiers' hands.