Talented young pilot Alexey Guchshin does not accept authority and acts in accordance with a personal code of honor. For failure to comply with an absurd order, he is prevented from flying military aircraft and only by a miracle does he get a chance to fly a passenger airliner. He has to start his flying career again: Alexey becomes the second pilot-trainee on the Tu-204SM under the guidance of an experienced crew commander, the pilot Leonid Zinchenko. Their work relationship was not easy.

During the flight to Southeast Asia, the crew receives a message about an earthquake on an island and decides to go to the epicenter of the disaster to give aid. On the brink of life and death, when the ground is slipping from under their feet, and around the fire and rescue just in the sky, Gushchin shows everything what he can do. But only by working together can the crew to perform the feat, and save the passengers.