It is an anti-communist propaganda work focusing on a family trapped in Soviet-occupied Bessarabia and its eventual liberation by Axis forces during Operation Barbarossa.

To get her son back she agrees to sing Russian songs in theaters and taverns.

One such image is found by chance by her husband, who is in the Romanian army with the rank of captain.

Because of the invasion of Bucharest by Soviet troops in 1944 the movie was banned and the actors were arrested.

However, it was rediscovered in the Cinecittà archives in Rome and was shown for the first time in Romania in December 2006.