Andryusha and his school friends discover in a pile of garbage badly typewritten pages with the signature "Attack". The children are enthusiastic about this collection of war stories. It turns out that their author, Bukin, lives very close to them. They go to see the old man who, despite his illness, does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forests, and in what free time he has left, he writes down stories of life at the front as he remembers.
