Everest is a great impregnable mountain, the summit of which many professional mountaineers dream of conquering. One of the expeditions to its summit ended in a real tragedy, but this fact does not stop brave climbers.

Experienced instructor Rob Hall, having gathered a group of the best climbers, is going to make an ascent to the highest peak of the planet. All these people are full of courage and bravery and they will stop at nothing until they reach the top of Mount Everest. But even if this mountain is conquered, will they be able to come back alive and unharmed?

Allan, a promising student, ends up in a wheelchair after an accident. To help him get over his depression and find his will to live again, his friend Jeffrey, a genius scientist working on increasing the intelligence of monkeys, decides to give him a female capuchin monkey, the result of his experiments.

To teach the monkey how to care for the sick, Jeffrey turns to trainer Melanie. Allan and Ella, as he calls his new friend, get along perfectly, and after a while, Ella even begins to anticipate many of Allan's requests. Everything is going well, and the attraction between Melanie and Allan begins to develop into a stronger feeling. But one day, the monkey's dark side is revealed.

November 25, 1970. The famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima got up early in the morning, put on his military uniform, and, along with fellow members of the Shield Society, went to the Self-Defense Forces ground forces base in Ichigaya to urge soldiers to stage a coup d'état. Along the way, Mishima recalls his life and its influence on his works.