The film is based on the children's diaries of the Great Patriotic War of the famous storyteller Gennady Tsyferov for the 90th anniversary of the writer, author of everyone's beloved "Locomotive from Romashkovo", "Losharik", "The Frog Who Was Looking for Daddy". Through the prism of naive children's perception and a fabulous view of the world, the picture of the realities of war is reflected. But the thirst for life and the need for paternal love turn out to be stronger than a cruel meat grinder.