It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where Bambang Hermanto won the Silver Prize for Best Actor.
[1] Circa 1947, a platoon led by Letnan Amin (Rendra Karno) receives an assignment to hold a strategically important bridge.
These troops are supported by a number of refugees, among them Irma (Chitra Dewi), a middle-class child cynical about the fight for independence.
Corporal Seno (Bambang Irawan) suspects Imron of wanting Amin out of the way to get Irma.
In order to prove this suspicion wrong, Imron decides to undertake an operation to free Amin from a Dutch prison camp.