All Tanya wanted was to live well, warmly and contentedly. The war began, and, imagining a fate full of heroic deeds, she voluntarily went to the front. It turned out that the war is unsightly - blood, pain, dirt and cold. Tanya accepted the rules of the game, and after a while no one called her anything other than Tanka the Machine Gunner, and her cruelty amazed even the Nazis. Several decades later, the person involved in the death of the legendary Tanya dies. It would seem that there is nothing criminal in his death, but a local journalist who talked with the man the day before doubts it. Having connected all the events together and risking his own life, the young man goes on the trail of the killer...