A film about the fate of a girl, brutally mutilated by the Nazis in the front-line town of Rzhev. Senior inspector of one of the design institutes Galina Viktorovna Rzhevskaya, who lives in Rostov-on-Don, talks about her life in an orphanage, work, family. Military newsreel footage, footage taken after Galina Viktorovna graduated from the technical school. G. V. Rzhevskaya with her husband and son during a trip to the city of Rzhev to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the Nazis.