直升机驾驶员瓦里科在格鲁吉亚山区工作，为交通不便的群众运送生活物资、放映电影。当地群众十分爱戴他，称他“米米诺”。有一次，他遇到从前的同学，如今人家已是大型客机上的机长了。瓦里科心中十分羡慕，很想到大飞机上去工作。于是他辞去了山区的职务，只身来到城里。在城里，瓦里科受到许多冷遇。他与一个莽撞司机哈切基扬萍水相逢，两人在城里又经历了一系列奇遇。城里的人情冷漠使瓦里科很不自在，他不时地回忆起山区群众……

A heroic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformations. One of director Alexander Mitta’s best films. The south of Russia, 1920. In a town square, a mono-performance is on, based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. The film’s hero who took the pseudonym “Revarm”, which stands for “Revolutionary Art for the Masses”, is seriously interested in theatre. The real life and the stage one are intertwined in his destiny. In a provincial town where the power continuously changes hands, going from the Reds to the Whites, from the Whites to a band of the Greens, this youthful stage reformer, endowed with the gift of persuasion, attracts people to his cause, leaving no one indifferent.…