An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...