埃德蒙（罗伯特·多纳特 Robert Donat 饰）本是一个朝气蓬勃的年轻水手，他对生活充满了热情，与人为善的个性亦为他在江湖上结识了诸多朋友。梅塞迪丝（爱丽莎·兰迪 Elissa Landi 饰）是埃德蒙心爱的姑娘，当埃德蒙完成了此次海上作业回到陆地上后，两人就准备成婚。不幸的是，埃德蒙的幸福惹得情敌费尔南多（西德尼·布莱克默 Sidney Blackmer 饰）十分眼红，他和昏庸的法官威尔弗（路易斯·卡尔亨 Louis Calhern 饰）联手，利用莫须有的罪名将埃德蒙送入了大牢。
十七年过去了，在狱友的帮助下，心中充满了仇恨的埃德蒙越狱成功，出狱后的他只有一个念头，那就是对导致他沦落到今天如此境地的所有人展开复仇。埃德蒙摇身一变成为了神秘莫测的基督山伯爵，在成功进入了上流社会后，他的复仇计划也逐步的实施着。
Konstantin Gudauskas is a Jew born in Kazakhstan, but received political asylum in Ukraine.
After the Russian invasion begins on 24 February 2022, he is able to travel freely to the occupied territories and evacuate civilians from there thanks to his Kazakh passport. During the next months he saves 203 people by taking them out of the occupied territories. Konstantin observes firsthand the horrors of war and the atrocities of the Russian occupation. Throughout this time he is advised and guided by a woman, Haide Rizaeva, a Crimean Tatar, employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
Yura, working at a local nature museum, looking for a rare species, witnesses an arson in the forest. He brings the photos to a local newspaper, and gets a job there. With his new profession it dawns to him that the reality around him is a far cry from what is written in the newspaper.
