Gennady Matytskiy

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Flyora finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Amidst hunger, devastation, typhus, and complete chaos, a young soldier, Eumen, maimed by the civil war, and a girl, Maria, travel in a dilapidated freight car. Thus, on the terrible road of life, two lonely people begin to develop deep and pure feelings...