The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path space exploration and directly to the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main leitmotif of the film – the struggle for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut detachment; the competition of technologies in rocket; the confrontation of superpowers – the USSR and the USA. This is the first attempt to create a large-scale feature film about Yuri Gagarin. About him made documentary films, written hundreds of books, but so far, neither in the literature nor in movies are not created recognized, the classic biography of Gagarin. Widespread in the mass consciousness the story of his life is placed in two events: the first space flight and the last, fateful flight, in between some chaotic fireworks of world-wide fame. Nature abhors a vacuum, myth. The gaps in knowledge about the real Gagarin, unfortunately, is filled with conjecture, rumors and speculation. In the first group of astronauts were selected from three thousand fighter pilots across the country. In twenty of the legendary got the best of the best. One of them will fly first, no one knew. In this way I had to fight not only gravity...