Series finale.

Edvard stayed in Pranjani, but got new accommodation with the Martinović family. His romance with Kosta's young daughter continued, so Radmila used every moment of her parents' inattention to go visit Edward. The Martinovics, who recently lost a son of Edward's age, look favorably on their sympathies. On the way to Vučković's mother Anka's house, where Mirko is convalescing, Kosta and Ilija run into a partisan ambush in the forest. It turns out that the soldiers are in the service of Sreten, who meets his father face to face for the first time in a long time.

Planes arrive to pick up the Allied pilots, so Mirko comes home to take Edward to prepare for his return to Italy. He is greeted by a scowling Costa, who cannot come to terms with the fact that his sons are looking at each other through the crosshairs. Mirko protests, tells his father that he does not understand him. It doesn't suit him that he is with the Chetniks, it doesn't suit him that Sreten is with the communists. Kosta tells him that he crossed Bregalnica and Kajmakchalan, that he saw the crippled and the dead, and that he hoped that if he and his followers were destined to go to war, at least their children would not have to die.

Ilija is still in a coma, but the doctors decide to release him for home treatment. Dušanka and Kosta watch over their youngest son day and night, fearing for his fate. Mirko also often comes home to visit his brother, but his presence irritates Kosta, who reproaches him for fornicating around the village with another woman, while his wife Milica is waiting for him at home with a full stomach and two small daughters. After the scolding she suffered from her mother because of Edward, Radmila is more and more withdrawn and tries to stay away from the American pilot. Edward doesn't understand why she changed her attitude towards him.

The villagers of Pranja gathered in the quarry in order to collect stones for the construction of the runway for the Haliard operation in the Galovića field, organized by the Yugoslav Army in the homeland. Among them, Ilija works devotedly, whom his father advises to slow down in order to save himself for life after the war. His son tells him that if he wants the war to end, then he must allow him to go to the forest, as Sreten and Mirko did. Costa threatens him that he will not go anywhere, after which Ilija, angry and nervous, experiences an accident during a landslide.

At the air base in the Italian city of Foggia, American pilots led by Edward Walsh prepare for takeoff. Their route is the city of Ploesti in Romania, where they plan to bomb German oil facilities. After returning from Romania, a badly damaged Allied plane crashes in the Serbian village of Pranjani. Captain Zvonko Vučković orders Second Lieutenant Mirko Jović to rescue the American airmen before they are captured by the Germans and Bulgarians. The plane crash was witnessed by members of Mirko's family - father Kosta, grandfather Miloš, younger brother Ilija and sister Radmila, who were loading hay not far from the accident site.