The film is dedicated to the legendary Panfilov division, which fought in the Volokolamsk direction near Moscow in 1941, stopped the Nazis and went on the counteroffensive. During the second general offensive of the Wehrmacht against Moscow from November 16 to November 18, 1941, the battalion under the command of B. Momysh-Uly fought heroically on the Volokolamsk highway near the village of Matryonino near Moscow. The skillful leadership of the battalion commander made it possible to detain the Nazis at this turn for three days.—Bazza the Beast