The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
Vera Maretskaya, Pyotr Aleynikov, Lidiya Smirnova, Aleksandr Violinov, Inna Fyodorova, Ivan Pelttser, Yuriy Korshun, Boris Dmokhovsky, Vladimir Gremin, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Lidiya Smirnova, Aleksey Zubov