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Bogdan is tortured by partisans before being shot; he tries to kill himself but without success. They take him to be shot and he recognizes Miška. Vladimir is wounded, Miško takes him from the car with the wounded and carries him to the village and tells him that Bogdan was killed. She leaves him in the village, where the nurse begins to take care of him. For the first time in his life, he introduces himself as Katic. In flashbacks, we hear Bogdan's farewell letter to Vladimir (during Vladimir's wounding). The mouse needs to carry loads of silver. With great losses in humanity, he manages to break through to the company. Vladimir is lying in a hospital where there is a general panic due to the approach of the Germans. All the wounded refuse to help with the retreat.

Dušanka begs Bora to call Nedić again to ask for help to release Nadja. Bora comes to the special police to inquire about her but finds out nothing. They find her in a blanket in a woman's cell in prison. Prisoners are divided into those who condemn her and those who justify her. All of them are later taken to be shot. Bora goes to Nedić and begs him for help. Nedić is told on the phone that Nadja was shot and he informs Bori. Bogdan is coming to interrogate Vujković. Vujković tells him that Nadja was shot and that Milena cheated on him with Petra. Born wanders madly, encounters German soldiers, disobeys their order to stop and kills him. Bogdan is told that he will be transferred to Peter's and the two of them face each other in prison. Peter begs him to talk, but Bogdan refuses. Peter asks to be crucified, and Bogdan is released from the Gestapo.

Dragisa Vasic wanders around Belgrade and comes to Vukasin. They are both aware that they will see each other for the last time, they chat about their dead friends at lunch, and after lunch they part forever. Bora confides in Bogdan that Nedic invited him to the occupation government, and Bogdan strongly condemns him. Petar notices that Nadja is late for the scheduled meeting for the first time. In the city, they meet Bogdan and together they go to Avala, where Peter's shelter is. He admits to Bogdan that his men shot at him. The Germans discover Peter's shelter, break into the house and arrest Peter and Bogdan, and kill Rachel. Bora Pub is arguing with Dušanka over Nadežda's behavior because he heard rumors that she is in a relationship with a German and stories that she is a German whore. He searches Nadezhda's room and finds a Serbian-German dictionary.

In the flashback, we follow Bogdanov and Monica's last conversation and his return to Yugoslavia. Nadja continues her romance with Franco, even though they gossip about her in the neighborhood. She confides in Milena, who advises her to leave Franz, to which she refuses to obey. Peter is hiding under Avala in the house with Rachel. The Germans are attacking Russia. Milun tells Bogdan that he is slowly recovering. Dušanka advises Milena and Ivan to go to Prerovo and they listen to her and go to their cousin Adam. For the first time, Nadja does not respond to Franco's call and is absent from their meeting. Taking advantage of the fact that Nadja is beginning to feel guilty about her relationship with a German, Petar uses it and recruits her for a job - to convey messages while Mrs. Ruper is with Franz. Bogdan remembers Milena's visit. He decides to go from Slavkovica to Belgrade disguised in a peasant suit.

Najdan Tošić comes to Katic to reconcile with Katarina and to take her, Vera and the children to his villa in Dedinje after he found out through his connections that the Germans would attack Belgrade. Ivan refused to go and parted ways with Vera. Miško informs Vladimir about the signing of the agreement between Yugoslavia and the USSR. Vladimir tries to print a banner for the new protest they are preparing, but he fails. On the way to the meeting place, he meets Zora. They are interrupted by the beginning of the bombing in which Zora is hit. Milena is getting ready to go to Valjevo, when the sirens interrupt her. Vukasin is bombed in bed. They all run to the basement together. They carry out two bombings in the basement, and then Milena goes to look for Vladimir in the city. After the attack, Ivan goes to save the wounded. Milena wanders around the city. Vukasin is visited in the house by the disguised Slobodan Jovanovic, who invites him to go inland with him and the government.

Thanks to Peter's order, the KP youths are lifting the boycott from Vladimir. Milena and Petar try to save their love affair in the log cabin on Tara, but return to Belgrade completely broken, after Petar keeps silent about her task of liquidating Bogdan. Miško enters into a relationship with Savko. Zora tells Vladimir to lift the boycott, but he refuses to return only at Miško's urging. Prince Pavle invites Vukasin to talk about the political situation, the ultimatum of Germany and the pressures of Britain and France. Police arrest communists, including Miško Savko. He's getting sick. After he finds out that she snitched on her friends in the police, Miško leaves Savka. Milun and Bogdan find out about the pact between Prince Pavle and Germany from the newspapers.

Milena refused to communicate with Peter, which is why he got drunk and complained to his friend, Colonel Đurić. In flashbacks, Bogdan remembers his stay in Moscow - the interrogation before the commission of the Comintern, which included his former friend Đura Višnjić. In a series of flashbacks, we learn that he betrayed his friends under pressure. Vladimir leaves Zora. Bogdan decides to write his opinion on the situation in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Ivan comes to Valjevo and refuses to help him publish the manuscript, but he is helped by Bora Pub, which prints it. She secretly meets with the German engineer Franz Roeder at the Spanish professor's. He hides from Bora and Dušanka that he is not learning Spanish, but German. Bogdan, rejected by his sister, son-in-law and party, goes to his uncle Milun's in the village of Slavkovica near Valjevo

The year is 1934. Bogdan Dragović is released from prison. He is greeted by a festive lunch at the house of his father-in-law Vukasin Katic. His wife Milena is looking forward to re-establishing family relations, after five years in prison due to her communist orientation. Bogdan's friend from the First World War and agent of the Comintern, Petar Bajevic, comes to the festive lunch and tells Bogdan that he has to go to Paris on a party assignment. Five years later, Milena is in an emotional relationship with Peter, Bogdan returns to Belgrade from political emigration at the dawn of World War II, and Vladimir, Milena's and Bogdan's son, together with his girlfriend Zora and friends from college, including Bora's son Miško goes to communist student protests against the government. Vladimir is under arrest. Milena asks for help from Bora Pub, assistant minister and old friend.