The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.

Argomento: lo sterminio degli ebrei ungheresi deciso da Hitler nel 1944. Svolgimento: immagini di repertorio che ricostruiscono l'Ungheria della prima metà del Novecento; testimonianze di uomini e donne che furono arrestati, portati nei lager e, sopravvissuti, andarono a vivere negli Stati Uniti. Queste persone tornano oggi in Ungheria a visitare di nuovo i luoghi di un tempo.

Former inmates and American soldiers remember the cruel conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp.