The Great Patriotic War is coming to an end. The Red Army is finishing off the fascists in their lairs. But the rear is not calm. In Western Ukraine, the Bandera militants are wreaking havoc. Nestor Babula is one of them. A bloody bandit keeps the whole area in fear: he robs, rapes, kills—taking revenge on Soviet power. An operational group from the SMERSH counterintelligence department, under the command of Captain Alexey Kravets, is sent to hunt down and destroy the remnants of these ruffians. An experienced combat officer knows how to clip the tail of a runaway bully. But Babula isn’t just any thug either: he has help from abroad and support from most of the local population…