He has been at the front since 1941. He was the only survivor of an entire tank battalion. He lost hundreds of friends, he himself was shot down six times, wounded, burned in a tank - but always returned to duty. In the terrible autumn of 1942, when the fate of Stalingrad was being decided, he fell under the millstone of merciless order No. 227 (“Not a step back!”) . The tank forces did not have penal companies, but they had their own penal soldiers - those who were given the most disastrous, most impossible, deadly tasks. And now he is one of these suicide bombers. He goes on a hopeless tank raid behind enemy lines - to wash away his non-existent guilt with blood...