Valentyna Sova

Night. Air raid sirens. Insomnia. A girl returns to a city she barely recognizes and confronts the changes in it and its inhabitants.

During the Second World War, senior lieutenant Astra Lejiņa, a member of the Soviet Army’s propaganda unit, receives permission to serve in the same military unit as her fiancé. Travelling a long distance by vehicle and on foot, she makes her way to the front, becoming an eyewitness to a series of dramatic and harrowing events that reveal the human cost of war.