1975, Sevastopol. Viktor Tabachnikov, a 22-year-old cadet at the Nakhimov Naval School, is preparing for graduation together with his friends Alexander Kuznetsov and Sergei Kanatnikov. Any day now, the young men will become real officers, and they are full of dreams of a happy future filled with long voyages and adventure. Viktor’s dreams are not meant to come true: he is expelled from the school “with a phone call” after a fight with the son of a local official. Convinced that his life has been ruined, the young man takes a job as a sambo instructor. Everything unexpectedly changes when an acquaintance, a warrant officer, offers him a position as a combat swimmer. Thus begins a new life for Viktor—no less exciting than the one he had dreamed of. To find out how the events unfold, watch “Marines” online on ivi.