On September 30, 1985, all the world news agencies spread sensational news that four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in Beirut. A hitherto unknown terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. Soldiers of the top-secret Vympel state security unit are sent to the Lebanese capital. Yury Drozdov, head of the KGB's illegal intelligence service, is confident that only "special-purpose intelligence officers", whom he personally selected and trained, are able to find the optimal solution to this problem. In this film, for the first time, the details of this covert operation of the Soviet state security will appear, one of the many dizzying combinations that were developed and carried out by a man who became a legend of the special services during his lifetime. For almost half a century, Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov served his people. He went to the front at the age of 19 and spent almost his entire life at the forefront of the country's defense.