The scene is laid in the first year of the Great Patriotic War. The film is about the fight of a partisan detachment led by Stepan Kochet, secretary of the district Party Committee, against the German army Colonel Makenau. According to an artful plan of Makenau that outwitted Kochet, a spy enters the camp of partisans. Their operations fail, people are killed, Kochet himself is under arrest. But he manages to escape. The partisans expose a spy, destroy the German unit and take Colonel Makenau captive.
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