
Winter of 1942. The Wehrmacht's Sixth Army is fighting in Stalingrad, which has been razed to the ground. A platoon of elite German soldiers, which lost more than half of its personnel in the first battle, is fighting a desperate struggle for survival.
The whistle of bullets and the roar of Katyushas, hunger and cold drive them to the brink of madness. Almost nothing keeps the soldiers on the thin line between life and death. After everything they have seen, after the loss of all ideals, the Führer's call to “stand to the end” acquires for them a completely different, much more terrible meaning ...