The young soldier, 19-year-old Alyosha Skvortsov performed the feat, shot down several enemy tanks. The reward for the hero was a short vacation home. And he sees the house, hug his mother and promised her to come back. But then again, he leaves the front to die.Directed by Grigoriy Chuhray once remarked in an interview: "I decided to make a film about what happens when the world is losing a single man."