TV movie based on the work of the same name by V. Kataev.
Summer 1943. A group of scouts of an artillery battalion during a raid on the enemy's rear stumbles upon a 12-year-old boy. The scouts are shocked by his appearance - completely wild, dirty, ragged, angry and hungry - a real "wolf cub". The scouts take him with them and find out that he has been wandering through the forests for about two years now, eating what he has to and hiding all the time. The command decides to send the boy to the rear, but on the way to the city he still escapes and again returns to the scouts ...