Alexander Dolinsky

Koenigsberg, East Prussia, June 1944. Boys from the Hitler Youth are rushing to the front, and two Soviet boys who escaped from a concentration camp are trying to break through to their own.

A young aspiring writer living with an ill father is refused by a publishing house and continues to work as a tutor of the Russian language and literature. Visiting a new student, he becomes a witness of her quarrel with a boyfriend. This arouses his interest and provokes unusual and dangerous actions.