As an executioner for the state, a father kills in order to buy his son more time to live. The boy, who dreams of flying a kite with his father, is an invalid desperately in need of an operation the executioner cannot afford.

第二次世界大战期间，七名平民从高度戒备的监狱成功逃脱。并躲藏在一个偏僻的村庄，可是，他们并没有因此而活的喘息的机会，新的厄运接踵而来一纳粹部队顷刻已在咫尺出现。危急关头中，没想到，尽在身边的敌人竟化作他们的捍卫者。各人挺身而出。共同对抗更为强大的军方势力！

The Reality Of Life In Soviet Era Ukraine. This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality.
A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker; which is spoilt by the woman's jealous young son.
The convict is then forced to undergo a tragic bid for freedom which ends with the beauty of swans contrasted with the imprisoned convicts and the hopeful but ultimately tragic wait by the woman for her lover.