End of 1995. It is very difficult for the old president to relinquish power - especially when his entourage assures that no one but him can cope. Even lying in a hospital bed after a heart attack, Boris Yeltsin decides to run again. These elections will mark a watershed in the history of Russia. The president's supporters will make every possible and impossible effort to preserve freedom. And they seem to win. But in the end they will get exactly the opposite of what they fought for.