1944. The Belarusian offensive operation, called “Bagration,” is in full swing. As a result, Soviet troops reach the state border, come up to the Vistula River and East Prussia. The wounded Lopatin lies in a Moscow hospital, where he is visited by his now-grown seventeen-year-old daughter. Nina plans to complete a six-month training course and then go to the front as an operating nurse. Despite all his anxiety, Lopatin cannot refuse her—especially since the opening of the Second Front also doesn’t fill him with optimism. Until the end of the war, there remains a little less than a year…