A dramatic love story takes place against the backdrop of the early days of World War II. 20-year-old American Rosa Ashkenazi arrives in a small Belarusian village, the homeland of her parents. She wants to collect musical material for a Broadway musical.
The girl appears in Zhdanovichi on June 20, 1941. Two days later, the Nazi troops, who launched an offensive against the Soviet Union, drive the entire population of the village to the synagogue and burn the helpless people alive. And only Rosa manages to escape. Together with the Russian officer Ivan Antonov, who survived the death of his battalion, Rosa is trying to catch up with the rapidly retreating Russian front. True and therefore tragic love breaks out between the characters.
