Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. Sometimes their relative uncle Yuri brings food to them. Once on his way back from Ivan's village uncle Yuri is attacked by dogs & perishes. Ivan & Leshia stay without supply. Once Leshia witnesses Ivan shooting at 'his' dog & runs away. The old Man finds him in a dry well, but he fails to get him out on his own. Ivan sets out through taiga in search of help. Now the dogs are hunting him... And the boy is waiting for his father...
The girl cut off her braid and went wherever she looked - to look for the groom. She is joined by a strange old man dressed in a transparent raincoat. There is a scythe about three blades on Grandfather's shoulder. He persistently pulls the girl "to the church" - to baptize someone, and the "first comer" should be the godfather. "I can't go to church," the girl objects. - There's a young, funny father there. I will laugh at him..." So she follows the old man past a blooming meadow, along a fast, cold river... Weaves a wreath along the way, decorating it with colored ostrich feathers caught from the water. A lot of events will happen along the way - one is more incomprehensible than the other, and then there will be a wedding and girls in embroidered sundresses with songs will carry garlands of hay on their shoulders with ribbons, red plows will float down the river, and in the foreground is a girl with a groom.
소년 플로리아는 나치 독일의 침공을 받고 있는 벨라루스에 살고 있다. 그런데 첫 장면에서 그는 모래밭의 흙을 파고 있는 중이다. 제대로 매장되지 못한 죽은 병사들의 시체들이 나오지만, 어떻게든 쓸 만한 총을 찾아낸다. 플로리아는 독일군과의 전투에 참여하길 원하지만 어른들은 그를 무시한다. 더 경험 많은 군인에게 그의 총은 인계되고, 그는 군인들의 행진을 지켜볼 뿐이다. 이윽고 플로리아는 글로샤라는 독특한 매력의 소녀와 함께 뒤에 처져 있음을 깨닫는다. 이들은 숲으로 가지만 거기서 나치 독일의 엄청난 폭격을 당하고, 그 바람에 플로리아의 청력에 문제가 생긴다. 정신이 혼미해진 플로리아는 마을로 돌아가는데, 거기서 엄청난 대량 학살의 흔적과 널부러진 시신들을 보고 경악한다. 문득 어머니의 생사가 궁금해져 필사적으로 찾아다니던 그는 비극적인 장면을 목격하게 되는데..
A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
