It Started Yesterday

The film is set in a working-class town. One of the chemical plant workers needs money for a date with his girlfriend, so he steals alcohol from a railway tanker. His workmates accidentally discover the alcohol and start distributing it to the townspeople. Meanwhile, it turns out that it was poisonous methyl alcohol. More and more people are taken to hospital and ambulances circulate through the streets of the town. There are already the first fatalities. The militia is investigating, looking for the thieves and the people who consumed the poisonous alcohol. One of the perpetrators of the tragedy, seeing the extent of the disaster he has caused, commits suicide.