After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses - only a third of the personnel remain from the pany. Exhausted to the limit, the soldiers are waiting for reinforcements, but an order es from the headquarters - to keep the village at all costs, and this is tantamount to a death sentence. The pany mander faces a difficult choice - either to lose the remnants of the pany, following a meaningless mand order, or to withdraw his people from mortar fire, but at the same time leave their positions and go to the tribunal for violating the order. In extremely realistic details, only one fierce battle is shown, in which, like in a drop of water, the whole truth about the war is reflected.