Valentyna is a letter carrier in the village of Ivankovychi. When the enemy approached almost at close range, even then she had no thoughts of leaving her native land. After all, she felt responsible for her clients - elderly people, for whom she was a source of information. And later, when after the first week the food supplies began to run out, there were other troubles - to find bread, to find milk for the little children. And to fight panic - it struck almost harder than the Russian "grads".