During the Great Patriotic War. Sergei Ogarkov, who had just graduated from the military academy, came to the front, and his first task was to convey retreat instructions to the artillery division. But due to lack of experience, Ogarkov got lost halfway, and the artillery division was surrounded, the order was not communicated, and the artillery division was annihilated. Ogarkov was sentenced to death by a military court, and his superior instructed his contemporaries, Kazakh Private Zulabayev, to be in charge of the escort, but the sudden killing of the Germans changed the direction of things.