Fifteen-year-old Stasik is growing up in a village in Ukraine while his parents are away working in western Europe. Now they want Stasik to follow and rejoin them. But he is carrying a secret that weighs heavily on him. Stasik is in love with his best friend Vassili. He needs to make a decision that will drastically affect his future.

At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.