A new science-fiction action movie from the author of the best-selling book “MiG Interceptor.” Once in the Great Patriotic War, our contemporary becomes a “Stalinist falcon”, a fighter pilot, an aerial sniper. Having replaced the heavy, high-speed MiG-3 with the light, maneuverable Yak-1, the “misfit” takes on the battle in the scorched sky of 1942. “I am a Yak fighter, my engine is ringing. The sky is my abode..." But in this abode it is black from Luftwaffe planes, German panzers are swarming below, the Wehrmacht is rushing to the east, the Nazis are rushing to Stalingrad, our troops are moving back towards the Volga - and in this meat grinder there is no time to sing Vysotsky and write to Stalin, you need to put on the wing of young unfired pilots and fight, fight, fight until the last shell, to the last drop of gasoline and blood - after all, even in the skies there is a merciless order: “Not a step back!”