Vo vsekh tryekh rasskazakh etogo sbornika deystvie proiskhodit v gody Vtoroy Mirovoy voyny. Pervyy - ostrosyuzhetnaya priklyuchencheskaya povest' o razvedchike Abvera Otto fon Raynere, zaslannom v 1941 godu v Nizhnee Povolzh'e s zadaniem sozdat' agenturno-diversionnuyu set' sredi rossiyskikh nemtsev. Otto vozvrashchaetsya v svoy rodnoy gorod i vstrechaet svoyu shkol'nuyu lyubov' - Tat'yanu. No situatsiya obostryaetsya tem, chto Tat'yana uzhe obruchena s ofitserom NKVD. Vtoroy - psikhologicheskiy ekshn, istoriya karatel'noy aktsii otryada SS protiv partizan, istoriya o partizanke Lare i sozhzhyennoy derevne, rasskazannaya nemetskim soldatom Ul'rikhom Zauberom. Tretiy - voennaya drama o neozhidannoy vstreche v lagere dlya nemetskikh voennoplennykh byvshego soldata SS Erikha Krauze i russkoy medsestry Nasti. Eto rasskazy o lyubvi i nenavisti; o popytkakh nayti vzaimoponimanie mezhdu lyud'mi, voleyu sudeb okazavshikhsya po raznye storony fronta.