Milena refused to communicate with Peter, which is why he got drunk and complained to his friend, Colonel Đurić. In flashbacks, Bogdan remembers his stay in Moscow - the interrogation before the commission of the Comintern, which included his former friend Đura Višnjić. In a series of flashbacks, we learn that he betrayed his friends under pressure.
Vladimir leaves Zora. Bogdan decides to write his opinion on the situation in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Ivan comes to Valjevo and refuses to help him publish the manuscript, but he is helped by Bora Pub, which prints it.
She secretly meets with the German engineer Franz Roeder at the Spanish professor's. He hides from Bora and Dušanka that he is not learning Spanish, but German. Bogdan, rejected by his sister, son-in-law and party, goes to his uncle Milun's in the village of Slavkovica near Valjevo