April 1945. Nazi fanatics desperately defend doomed Berlin. Parts of the Red Army with battles break through to the government quarter, where the leaders of the Reich are hiding in a secret bunker. Major Andrei Rakitin's SMERSH task force captures a German defector who reports that, among others, there is a high-ranking German intelligence officer in the bunker, whom our operatives have been hunting for a long time. Rakitin decides, with the help of a recruited defector, to lure an important German out of hiding. Major realizes that his plan is too audacious. But there will be no other such chance...