Nina Tikhomirova

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

About life and customs in the boyar environment during the reign of Peter I.

Two fugitives are making their way through the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans. Their goal is to find a partisan unit or cross the front line. One of them is a sixteen-year-old boy, Stepan, a local resident. The other is a Soviet officer who escaped captivity, whom Stepan miraculously saved from death.