Decades ago, the fierce battles of the Great Patriotic War came and went. Children have grown up for whom the war seems like distant history. In a school attic, sixth-grader Kostya Makarov finds an old photo album with pictures from the war years. In one of them, among smiling children, are three soldiers in gymnastiorkas. What were their names? What kind of people were they? How did their lives as soldiers and men unfold? The search for answers to these questions leads the schoolchildren into the country's military past and brings them face to face with all kinds of people. The events of the distant and recent past unfold before us in a curiously interconnected way, and it becomes clear: everything is closely linked—the fate of the country, the fate of a family, the fate of a single person… And there is no family that has not been touched by the terrible breath of war.
