The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

A man reconnects with the people he grew up with in a Soviet orphanage.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.