1837: Another year of the grueling Caucasian War. The young officer Grigory Pechorin is sent into exile in the active army for his participation in a duel. Here, in the Caucasus, Pechorin is to become an unwilling participant in the rapidly unfolding events - a fight with smugglers, the kidnapping of a young Circassian princess, another duel. And when the whole world turns against Pechorin, and a close friend falls by his hand, he will continue his journey alone - a hero, a creature of the new time that has come...