The commander of the Red Army, Lieutenant Yegor Kuzmin, and his comrades find themselves in the thick of the heaviest battles in the first month of the war. Only a dozen people remain from a full-blooded rifle company, the unit finds itself deep in the German rear, but the surviving soldiers continue the merciless fight against the enemy and they manage to break through to their own. For honestly fulfilled soldier's duty in the most difficult sectors of the front and unbending courage, Lieutenant Kuzmin is appointed commander of the reconnaissance unit. sabotage detachment and are entrusted with the most important and impossible tasks. In all military operations, Yegor is helped by sacred hatred of the vile enemy and military brotherhood.