17-year-old teenagers - Muscovite Sasha and Kazakh Mamazhan - find out that their parents are going to get married, and now they will become half-brother and sister and will live under the same roof. Soon both realize that peaceful coexistence is impossible: Zhan prevents Sasha from making a sports career, and Sasha Zhan from making music. To get rid of each other, teenagers enter into a confrontation that leads to unexpected consequences for both.
The place where the great poet Pushkin crafted his works. The fascist forces occupied Mikhailovskoye. Each of the local residents “follows his own path”. Some join the partisans, some collaborate with the occupiers. Among them — Sergey. A professor of literature, Frau Shiller comes to Mikhailovskoe from Germany. The front line is getting closer, and soon an order comes from Berlin to transfer all historical values out of Mikhailovskoe. Neither the partisans, nor Sergey, who’s fallen into a relationship with Frau Shiller, can allow this to happen. Sergey decides to save the country’s heritage.