A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.

这是一部反映二战期间匈牙利部队内部斗争的电影，影片真实的再现了二战时期匈牙利部队中的混乱与工人们分歧重重的现状，及那个时期这个小国在战争中的地位。 沙堡中校是第十九团的团长，因为主持正义被叛徒迫害，他 的团被解散，他自己也被捕入狱。沙堡与叛徒的武装力量展开激烈的斗争，领导狱中的战士和老百姓成功占领监狱，并与大部队会合。 战争结束了，新的十九团整齐的汇集。孩子们在经过战斗的广场上踢足球，沙堡迎来了新的任务，迎来了新的黎明。