Lieutenant Andrei Khmara returns to the partisan camp after being wounded in combat. There the doctor Antonina Ivanovna operates. In August 1941 she was shot for having helped a Soviet fighter and left an orphan son.
After the war Andrey returns home. With those with whom he fought among the partisans he built a factory. He married, adopted three orphans and went in search of Vassiliok, the son of Antonina Ivanovna.