Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in the mountains in harsh winter condition.

Breakthrough

Hinko Smrekar was a brilliant painter, graphic artist and cartoonist, a companion of the greats of Slovenian literature and fine arts between the two world wars. Freedom was the basic foundation of his life and creation, as he himself wrote, he could not "force himself even with batons and bayonets not to look and think with his own head."