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V samom nachale Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭny krokhotnyĭ gorodok Stavrovo okazyvaetsi͡a v ėpit͡sentre bolʹshoĭ istorii. Ego raspolozhenie, blizostʹ linii fronta, zheleznai͡a doroga, perekrestok neskolʹkikh dorog priveli v gorod krupnyĭ garnizon nemt͡sev. No v gorode deĭstvuet podpolʹe, sostoi͡ashchee, v osnovnom, iz vcherashnikh shkolʹnikov. Ėto istorii͡a protivostoi͡anii͡a dvukh molodykh li͡udeĭ, dvukh zhiznennykh pozit͡siĭ - komsomolʹt͡sa Aleksei͡a i predateli͡a Dmitrii͡a. Oba molody, oba chitali odni i te zhe knizhki v detstve, uchilisʹ v odnoĭ shkole, li͡ubili odnu devushku. No pervyĭ, ne zadumyvai͡asʹ, otdal zhiznʹ za to, chto schital svi͡ashchennym - za Rodinu, a vtoroĭ samozabvenno muchil i ubival svoikh zhe sootechestvennikov, sosedeĭ, znakomykh, byvshikh odnoklassnikov.

At the very beginning of the great Patriotic war, the tiny town of Stavrovo is in the epicenter of great history. Its location, the proximity of the front line, the railway, the intersection of several roads led to the city a large garrison of Germans. But the city operates underground, consisting mainly of yesterday's students. This is the story of the confrontation between two young people, two life positions — Komsomol member Alexei and traitor Dmitry. Both young, both read the same books as a child, went to the same school, loved the same girl. But the first, without hesitation, gave his life for what he considered sacred — for the Motherland, and the second selflessly tortured and killed his own compatriots, neighbors, acquaintances, former classmates.