February 1942 After several months of fighting, a Red Army company, from which only a third of the personnel remained, finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo. Fighters, exhausted, expect reinforcements, but the headquarters orders them to keep the village at all costs, which means a death sentence. The company commander faces a difficult choice - to execute a meaningless command order and lose the remaining people or take the soldiers out of the fire and go to the tribunal.