In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
작은 바닷가 마을에서 사랑스러운 아내, 아들과 함께 살고 있는 평범한 아버지 콜랴. 부패한 시장이 호화 별장을 짓기 위해 그의 집을 빼앗으려 하면서 콜랴의 삶은 걷잡을 수 없이 흔들리기 시작한다. 콜랴는 유능한 변호사 친구의 도움을 받아 이 상황을 이겨내려 하지만, 법을 뛰어넘는 막강한 권력을 가진 시장은 그를 더욱 궁지로 몰아가는데… 권력이라는 괴물에 맞서는 평범한 아버지의 치열한 생존 싸움이 시작된다!
