格雷戈尔(贾基·施瓦茨 Jaecki Schwarz 饰)在很小的时候因为战乱跟随父母逃离了德国,当他再度回到自己的故乡时,已经是一位19岁的青年了。回归后,格雷戈尔以苏联军官的身份被任命成为了地方司令官。当地的市长是一名纳粹分子,当他的阴谋败露之后,他和格雷戈尔之间爆发了激烈的矛盾。 格雷戈尔和伙伴萨沙(阿列克谢·艾博贞科 Aleksey Eybozhenko 饰)、德辛吉斯(Jenny Gröllmann 饰)一起前往前线,向德国士兵劝降。哪知道在解放集中营的过程中,萨沙被受惊的士兵乱枪打死。眼前混乱的景象和好友的身亡让格雷戈尔坚定了信念,要拯救自己的国度。April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted with the dilemma of having to fight men from the very country he was born in. Through dealing with challenging situations (e.g. he is appointed commander of Bernau, talks to many disillusioned Germans, and is once and again attacked by scattered groups of German soldiers), he grows more confident that not all hope is lost for post-war Germany. Based on the diary entries of director Konrad Wolf, the episodic movie authentically portrays the protagonist's struggle to come to terms with his own past and identity.