The film describes the Second World War, in particular the conquest of Berlin, from a Stalinist point of view. It tells the story of the young steel worker Alexei Ivanov, who falls in love with the teacher Natasha. While the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, Alexei is badly injured. When he awakes from his coma, he has to find out that Natasha was kidnapped and that German troops stand shortly before Moscow. He enlists in the Red Army, fights successfully in Moscow and finally in Berlin, where Hitler and the German leadership keep themselves hidden in a shelter. Against the preceding efforts of Churchill at the conference of Yalta and after Hitler’s suicide, the Soviet soldiers under the wise guidance of Stalin succeed in capturing Berlin. But will Alexei and Natasha reunite?