Anika, the daughter of the Greek partisan refugee and the Hungarian medical student, Zoltán fall in passionate love. But Anika's mother wants her to marry a Greek, for she is very homesick and wants to go home. The under-age girl cannot protest.
The uprising against fascists in West Bosnia starts with enthusiasm, and local folks help partisans in every possible way. A village girl of Serbian ethnicity joins the resistance movement, and falls in love with the partisan commissar Ivan, an ethnic Croat who has been an expert in destroying railway tracks.
A partisan comes secretly to town to find about what happened to his little son who barely remembers him. He is horrified when he finds out that his son is raised in a colaborators' orphanage, brought up to hate communists and partisans. He decides to take his son to the freed territory with him, but will he manage to escape the police checkings
Soon after coming to small village, young doctor must fight against strong local superstitions.
年轻的执政官马库斯·瓦莱里乌斯被派去协助比勒陀利亚卫队队长梅内凯特逮捕并处决尽可能多的基督徒。在搜查地下墓穴时，他在基督徒中惊奇地发现他所爱的女人朱莉娅，她已经秘密皈依了被禁的宗教。他帮助她逃跑，麻烦很快就来了。他的军衔被剥夺，并被流放为角斗士
