The film is based on real events. 1991 year. Boris Yeltsin while the country will recognize that Gorbachev was blocked in Foros ... According to the Soviet leadership, formed State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR (the Emergency Committee of the USSR), and Yanayev and declared Acting President of the USSR. Many are advised to flee the country, but Yeltsin decides - he went to Moscow to the White House to lead the opposition ...