A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from ‘To My Soviet Motherland’, written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon’s underground bunker.

At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi’s daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.