When Captain Fedor Volkonogov is unexpectedly labelled a criminal, his life takes an unexpected turn. He escapes before getting arrested, but becomes an outcast and is on the run from his former coworkers.

A mother refuses to believe that her only son has been killed in action in Syria and starts a gruelling public battle with the government, until one day a strange young man arrives at her doorstep.

When a group of Russian soldiers are captured by the Nazis during World War II, they band together to plot and carry out a daring escape mission.