1941. The start of Great Patriotic War. The country mobilizes all resources and Alexander Mazover (Doberman) is charged with creating a K9 suicide squad. He has to train dogs to run to the enemy tanks and blow them up but from the beginning, things don’t go as planned. Doberman gets in trouble with his commanding officer. Things pile up in a big mess until Alexander meets Julbars and his beautiful handler, Dina. He learns that this dog successfully blew up German tanks without being killed. Doberman takes Julbars and uses him as an example for other K9 soldiers, developing a behavioral pattern that saves many dogs lives.
Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.