The airborne trickster - Aleksei Tomylin, civil aviation pilot - one day decides to stop tempting fate and only flies directly. The airport where Tomylin works is near the border with Afghanistan. One day he receives the task to fly across the border and transfer a package with an order to catch a notorious saboteur. On his way back, Tomylin crash lands near an abandoned settlement - and soon finds himself taken hostage by a gang. The hero pretends to agree to take the saboteur abroad, and relies only on his expertise as a flying ace.....
as Aleksey Tomilin, pilot
as Moustafa Haji, Japanese spy
as Vlasov, pilot
as Squadron commander
as Youssuf, bartender
as Captain Bystrov
as Kostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic
as Faizi
as Dugar
as Dispatcher (uncredited)
as Passenger with the newspaper (uncredited)
