A young guy who doesn’t work anywhere goes with his “friends” to a nightclub, gets drunk and suddenly finds himself at a collection point near Minsk in June 1941. Unable to do anything, unable to understand, he becomes a laughing stock. But as events unfold, he has to change himself. He opens up on the other side - he becomes a sniper. Coming out of encirclement near Minsk, he finds himself surrounded near Mogilev, then near Bryansk... Mishka Pananin turns from nothing into a good sniper and a good junior-level commander. Under the influence of conditions, he grows spiritually and morally...