During the Great Patriotic War, the artist and master of photomontage Alexander Zhitomirsky tries to convince the enemy to stop the slaughter with the help of his art. Millions of copies of propaganda leaflets-prisoner passes - are being dropped on fascist soldiers from airplanes. Unlike bombs, they don't take lives–they're designed to save them. The author of these leaflets, without sleep or rest, daily conducts his own struggle to see through hatred in the enemy of man. Will he be able to preserve his talent and himself in this struggle?