O filme narra o ato heroico de 28 soldados soviéticos que se sacrificaram em novembro de 1941 perto da vila de Dubosekovo. Segundo a história, os militares do famoso exército vermelho, liderados pelo Major General Ivan Panfilov enfrentaram bravamente as forças armadas de Hitler e mesmo, morrendo em batalha, conseguiram destruir 18 tanques alemães.
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
