

Ukraine, 1918. As a Bolshevik army of about 4.000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers -about 300 of which are students- is resisting...

Children who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.