Summary

Patriotic War. Sattar carries his wounded friend mikola back to his native village, but it has already been seized by the nazis. the parents hide them both in the house. there sattar meets marina. suddenly the nazis appear and, not finding any soldiers, take away mikola’s father. to save him the uzbek youth gives himself up. but it is too late, mikola’s father has already been shot. the prisoners are thrown behind the barbed wire. sattar escapes from the camp and becomes a partisan codenamed kazbek. after the war he returns to the byelorussian village and meets marina again, but she is a totally different person. the war has mangled her soul. sattar leaves the village embittered, but he will never forget the song about love and war which he heard in byelorussia during those inferno years.