The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War.
Barabolei returned to Ukraine, along with his fellow villagers, his beloved Marta, the fearless Ganusya, as well as the Red Army commanders Savva Tur and Mikhail Sozinov, who remained in the rear due to an injury, with the commander of the detachment of partisans, the avenger of the people Dmytro Goritsvit, all of them are fighting against the Nazis.
