Television film about people who are actively involved in the Slovak national uprising in 1944. A screen adaptation of the novel by Rudo Moritz in 1951.

The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter and concealed the persecuted, defectors and Jews during World War II. Through private history we get to global history.

This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.