A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

A teleplay about the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade Andrei Egorov, who died several years ago, and the Order of the Hero of Russia, which he was awarded posthumously. There, in a quiet corner on one of the skerries, in a deserted fishing village, Andrei's father and sister live.