A Siberian hermit, whose life was destroyed by the millstones of the Great October Revolution, spends 17 years in self-imposed exile. Having learned about the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR, the former Cossack officer, without hesitation, rushes to the front to protect his native land.

Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.

Convoy 48

1943. On the eve of the Red Army offensive, Captain Belov's group, which includes Ivan Rodin, accidentally discovers a disguised tank division near the village of Anino. The scouts understand that only they know about the ambush arranged by the Germans. The wounded Belov orders Ivan to reach the Soviet command and warn them of the danger. He reports to the headquarters about the tanks he saw and even reproduces the tactical number of the division, but the front command does not believe him. Suspecting Ivan of misinformation and working for the Germans, the military sends him under arrest. Colonel Alyoshin tries to save his friend: thanks to his perseverance, the command sends another group to Anino — Ivan becomes the guide, and Odintsovo leads the detachment.

Axe. 1943

1954. The year since Joseph Stalin died. The whole country, and every Soviet person, is waiting for the unknown. A terrible, long, long, but one way or another, familiar era has ended. And no one knows what will happen next. And through this huge country, frozen in anticipation of an unclear future, a little boy, Mishka Chereyskiy, rides.