Winter, 1943-1944. The war is stretching into its third year. Major Mlynsky, the commander of a partisan group is promoted to Lt. Colonel. Meanwhile the Germans are working on a super weapon and have created a fake partisan detachment. Inevitably the two detachments clash.

The film is the second part in a trilogy directed by Igor Gostev about partisan resistance against the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union during WWII. The first part is Front Without Flanks (1975). The third part is Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1981). All three screenplays were written by Semyon Tsvigun.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov starred as Soviet Army Officer Mlynsky, the commander of the partisan group in all three films.

Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Ivan Lapikov, Galina Polskikh, Valeriya Zaklunnaya, Oleg Zhakov, Yevgeniy Matveev, Igor Ledogorov, Georgiy Nikolaenko, Evgeniy Shutov, Ivan Pereverzev