The plot of the novel by the English writer Olister MacLean is based on real facts relating to the fate of the Anglo-American convoy heading from England to Murmansk in the summer of 1942. In a vivid artistic form, the author tells how a large convoy died due to unseemly actions. With great skill and sincerity, the novel depicts images of ordinary English sailors who spared no effort to help the Soviet people courageously fighting the enemy.