The film tells about front-line friendship and love. Three friends: journalist Misha Weinstein and two pilots, Major Nikolay Ermolov and Andrey Panov, promised to meet each other after the war. During one of the reconnaissance flights, the plane under the command of Ermolov was shot down by the Nazis and the pilot, with his navigator and journalist, took refuge in an abandoned hut, where they decided to defend to the last.