21 June 1941. The young lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov, having been assigned to a permanent place of service, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting rooms of the railway station and the crowd of people laden with luggage do not alarm the young man gripped by joyful hopes. Kolya hurries to the location of his unit - to the Brest Fortress... The soldier does not have time to be enlisted in the army, and at four in the morning artillery bursts - the war began. He was not enlisted in the Brest Fortress, but still took part in the first battle of his life, which lasted ten months.
