The film tells about the fate of a native of the city of Sasovo, a Red Army soldier Alexander Stepanovich Mishin (1923-1944), who committed the feat of self-sacrifice in a battle west of the Lithuanian city of Siauliai on August 18, 1944.

The film tells about the fate of a nineteen-year-old soldier Alexander Fedorovich Tipanov (1924-1944), a native of the Ryazan village of Ustye, who committed the feat of self-sacrifice in the battle for the liberation of the city of Krasnoye Selo on January 17, 1944.