Anyone who has worn a blue beret knows that there are no former paratroopers. Egor Dotsenko, a graduate of the Margelov RVDU, dismissed from the army during the collapse of the Soviet Union, having fallen into the past a year before the start of the Great Patriotic War, eagerly takes on the hard work of training young soldiers in modern tactical techniques. His goal is to prevent the terrible defeat of the Red Army in the summer of 1941, to prevent the war from consuming millions of lives of Soviet people. Major Dotsenko’s battalion becomes a model for the creation of new units. And when the Wehrmacht attacks the USSR, it will be met not by a colossus with feet of clay, but by a heavy tank, against whose powerful armor the German “damned horde” will be smashed!