The film is devoted to the formation and development of the automotive industry in the USSR: the production of the first cars at the AMO plant in 1924, the construction of the Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod automobile plants, the work of the automotive industry during the Great Patriotic War, the use of cars at the front, in particular, on the "road of life" across Lake Ladoga ... Car production at the Moscow, Minsk, Gorky, Volzhsky car plants. Construction of the Kama Automobile Plant, testing of prototypes of KAMAZ vehicles.