The events of the historical drama series "1941" unfold in a small village near the USSR border. The young daughter of the chairman, Alena, is preparing for her wedding. Her father has long decided everything with the groom's father - the train engineer Grigory. The girl likes this guy, but Grisha himself is in love with another - a homeless and modest neighbor, Daria. But all these twists and turns will soon become insignificant, as a war unlike any other is approaching the country. Grigory will have to join the partisans, and Alena will lose everything she loved.