During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. One day, Alexei does not return from his mission and he is thought to be dead. Some time after the end of hostilities though, he reappears : taken prisoner, he has managed to survive. But everybody besides Sasha rejects him;to make matters worse, he is expelled from the party. Alexei sinks into despair and alcoholism. Fortunately, Stalin dies and his lot improves at last.—Guy Bellinger

Pilot Aleksey Astakhov fought and was captured, then fled. In peacetime, Aleksey faced mistrust and suspicion - as a soldier who had been in captivity and thus "stained the moral character of the Soviet pilot." Aleksey suffers, cannot find a job in a profession and a place in life. He is saved by the love of Sasha Lvova, which she carried through the war and all the difficulties of the post-war time.—Peter-Patrick76 ([email protected])