When the last reserves are used up, a penal company is thrown into battle. And then a battle begins, from which the earth hums and the streams flow with blood... In July 1943, at the junction of the 11th Guards and 50th Armies, on the very first day of the offensive on the northern front of the Kursk Bulge, a separate penal company went on the attack, in which The platoon was commanded by Lieutenant Vorontsov. Using fire, bayonets and rifle butts, breaking through the enemy's forward lines, the penalty soldiers made it possible for the guards and tank breakthrough brigades to enter the gap and develop a successful offensive towards Orel and Khotynets.