The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.
A young convict is faithful to his code of action. He is not going to betray his friends and keeps silence. The investigators are powerless. But one day he is visited by his mother whom he has never seen before.
The film tells the story of two young people who chose different paths in life.
