The soldier Martynko gets to the guardhouse for having left his post to play football and inadvertently ran the ball into the general's house. In the desk of his camera he finds magic cards, from the game in which no one refuses, and only the owner wins, and first he mops the warden, having won both money, and boots, and, finally, the keys. Leaving the warden in the cell with his simple belongings and leaving to freedom, the martyr in the market earns the first capital and goes to a higher society.