December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. Throughout an objective to stop the adversary development, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is rejected. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing up. He's alive, however much from pleasant area. Ahead of him is a ruthless trial of extreme physical and also mental endurance. After fighting appetite and also severe cool, evading packs of wolves and also detachments of Nazi soldiers, the wounded Komlev finally makes it back to security. However there he faces an additional challenge, the most life-changing of them all.