It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

Kosti Klemelä
as Koskela

Heikki Savolainen
as Hietanen

Reino Tolvanen
as Rokka

Veikko Sinisalo
as Lahtinen

Åke Lindman
as Lehto

Pentti Siimes
as Määttä

Leo Riuttu
as Vanhala

Kaarlo Halttunen
as Rahikainen

Matti Ranin
as Kariluoto

Jussi Jurkka
as Lammio