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1928. In London bacteriological institute, in a close room laboratory, Professor Alexander Fleming examines the staphylococcus colonies grown on agar them in flat glass petri dishes.  "Stafile" translated from the Greek for "bunch of grapes", "coccus" - "ball", 'nest. «No joke it - to bestow phylogenic bacteria such poetic name? No, I suppose. Systematic serious people. Choosing a name, they just look for a memorable resemblance. Fleming familiar insidious staphylococci. At the beginning of World War II his teacher, Professor Almroth Wright, receiving the rank of colonel, was sent to France in Boulogne. Here he and his assistants, among whom was the lieutenant of medical service, Alexander Fleming, organized research center in the front. London bacteriologists have saved many soldiers' lives by introducing the troops vaccinated against constant companion of war - of typhoid and other dangerous infectious diseases. And the wounded? .. There was a little more complicated. British bacteriologist laboratory housed in the same building with the hospital, which was brought from the line of officers and soldiers with severe wounds, demanding a long hard treatment. But despite the efforts of the doctors and nurses, many of the wounded died in hospital beds. Fleming to get to his lab, he had to pass through the House, where the wounded were lying. And every day he saw a heavy picture. That man's face is dull gray, ashen, weaker pulse, difficult breathing. He had gangrene. Another struggling in the throes of the whole tense, his head thrown back. Tetanus. Third in rushing fever, loss of consciousness. This sepsis - blood poisoning. Watching the doomed Fleming as a person and a doctor - but he was also a surgeon - he could not remain indifferent. It grew unconsciously guilt in front of them. But Vlad though he of all the medical profession, he would not be able to save a soldier dying on the net, pro-sterilized sheets are not from the wound, and of concomitant causes. And they have been known to Fleming ...