Aleksej Longin

1941年、ナチスドイツはソ連への大規模な奇襲侵攻作戦“バルバロッサ作戦”を開始した。首都モスクワが大軍に包囲されようとする中、郊外の町ヴォロコラムスクを守備していたパンフィロフ将軍指揮下の第4中隊は敵の猛攻にさらされる。機動力、攻撃力に勝る独軍戦車部隊の前に歩兵中心の守備隊はなすすべもなく、生き残りはわずか28人。だが、彼らはモスクワを守る最後のとりでとして、絶望的に不利な戦いに赴いていく。

The story is set during the World War II. Seven prisoners manage to escape from the penitentiary and hide in a small village forsaken of God and men. Soon after they respire, they face a new hardship - a German subversive group appears near the village. And as the fate decree, the former 'enemies' of the Motherland turn into its fierce defenders. War mutilates lives of millions of people, but sometimes it is the war that makes even the most thorough scoundrel in the world to remember that he is also a MAN.

A mystery around a search for a lost skull of Nikolay Gogol.