Originally made as an eight-part series for Russian TV, The Bomber is a Second World War 'based-on-real-events' piece which makes an uneasy transition to the feature-length film format. The action centres on a Soviet air pilot, his radio-operator/girlfriend and the flight navigator, who find themselves in Nazi Germany after miraculously surviving a crash-landing in the opening sequences. All three soon find themselves caught up in a battle between the German soldiers (complete with a stereotypical passive-evil Nazi Commander) and a group of Russian guerrillas living in the woods.