在这部一九四一战争片中,在1941年德国进攻苏联初期，靠近苏联边界的一个小村庄里，村民的生活瞬间发生了变化，人们自觉或不自觉地被卷入了战争。
极少数人屈服于德军的淫威，大多数村民以各种方式抵抗侵略。
以格里沙为代表的村中年轻人，在与德军的较量中开始成熟起来，奋不顾身保卫自己的家园。
June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the first victims fall... Some Russian straggling soldiers who managed to stay alive after the first onslaught of the German army make their own war, some of the locals joining them to avenge their murdered relatives and to fight for their native land. The villagers are rent between the threats and executions introduced by the German invaders for helping the guerrillas and the necessity to help these guerrillas who are of their own flesh and blood. German repressions meet stubborn resistance. Walter, a German lieutenant, feels that the tactics of repression are wrong, but his superiors do not understand him. Walter falls in love with a local peasant girl, Dasha, but for Dasha only one man exists - Grigory, head of the local guerrillas. Grigory in his turn is married to Alyona, but not of his won accord....
