Alexei Romanov, already familiar to the reader from the first film of "Brüderschaft with Death", enlists to the German front, in order to clear his skirts. But after being wounded, he is invalided out of the army. His quiet life isn't much of a success, either – Alexei's fiancee married another man. Full of despair, the young man is already about to take his own life, but, by way of chance, he is ...