Have you ever tried to organize a border post in the mountains from a bunch of untrained green recruits? But Sergeant Grak, the foreman of the Life Guards Horse Pike Regiment, had to do just that. Having received a dozen obstinate suckers under his command, he goes to a mountain pass to carry out an order received personally from the brother of King Nuttaria. During the year that the detachment spent at the pass, the sergeant managed to turn the motley and untrained gang into a single combat detachment, welded together by military friendship and training. And only the beginning of a big war will force the detachment to leave the pass. Not everyone will come back. Some will remain on the mountain slopes forever. But everyone who survives will appreciate and remember the time spent at the border post.