Autumn 1944, a Ukrainian village left in the wilderness. The front has rolled back to the west, but in the forests there are still bands of Bandera followers. One of them has to be faced by a fighter from a sabotage-destruction battalion—an ex-intelligence officer who was discharged from the army due to injury. Based on the novel, a film was made at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio in 1976.