The film is based on the memories of Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II about his childhood, about his mother and father-priest, about how he went to Valaam with his parents as a child, about the terrible beginning of the war, which cut off his childhood in an instant, about the arrival of German...
In April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Smirnov arrives in Moscow. He just got out of the hospital. His main task is to neutralize the bandits who raid freight trains. Later, Smirnov realize that the leader of the gang of raiders is the one he least suspected.
