The second film about the life of Olga Bergholz begins on June 22, 1941 and ends with the days of the Great Victory. Suffering, struggle combined in the personal fate and work of the poet in the conditions of besieged Leningrad. The greatest tension of all forces and "brain muscles" became the main test in her life. The third part of the film tells about the post-war period of the life of the poetess. About new trials and about the country that has changed after the war. On documentary footage, Olga's diary entries and memoirs of contemporaries sound.