In the ultimate tension of physical and spiritual forces, the country went to its Great Victory over Nazi Germany. G. Bannov managed to show labor, heroism, and the entire harsh atmosphere of the war and post-war years in the story through students of the nineteenth group of the railway school. The author vividly, convincingly depicts events in the rear, where, like at the front, victory was forged. Before us is a gallery of interesting characters of priests, teachers, representatives of party and Komsomol organizations, under whose leadership the spiritual formation of the group takes place: from unorganized, daring, it gradually grows into a conscious, friendly collective, a reserve of the working class.