Kirill Novitskii

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

Left without parents, having gone through hardships and hardships, Kasym ends up in a boarding school, where he learns true friendship and becomes a marksman. Growing up, he falls in love, goes through exploits and betrayal during the Great Patriotic War. A "thread" from the past helps him to keep a person in himself, which connects him with the roots of the family and the values of his ancestors.

Volodya Mulyavin, a simple guy from Soviet Sverdlovsk, dreams of creating his own band, ignoring the ridicule of his peers and his mother's protests. A dream comes true unexpectedly. Thanks to his talented guitar playing, Volodya quickly gained popularity among his colleagues in the military unit in Belarus and created the vocal ensemble Pesnyary, which became the most popular Soviet band of the 1970s.