The Second World War is going on. Almost all German and partisans die in a hard combat on a lost forest road. Only Herbert, a German officer, and Alexey Buryan, a young partisan, stay alive.
Alexey is charged with a difficult mission to take the prisoner through wild forest for many dozens kilometers and to bring him by certain time to an appointed place. At first, the two enemies nearly kill each other, but later they understand that they are unable to survive one without the other.