Red Army lieutenant Yegor Kuzmin and his comrades find themselves in the furnace of the fiercest battles of the first month of the war. From a full-strength rifle company, only a dozen men remain. The unit ends up deep in the German rear, yet the survivors keep fighting mercilessly against the enemy—and manage to break through to their own.
For an honestly fulfilled soldier’s duty in the hardest sectors of the front and for the lieutenant Kuzmin’s unbending courage, he is appointed commander of a reconnaissance and sabotage detachment and assigned the most responsible and seemingly impossible missions.
In every combat operation, Yegor is helped by sacred hatred for a vile enemy and soldierly brotherhood.