Traveling in an unlit sleeping car on the No. 27 train from Kiev to Zdolbunov, Alexander Chubinets gradually reveals his life story to another passenger, a story encompassing the Nazi invasion of Russia, the Holocaust, and six years in a Siberian lab...
It is New Year’s Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her father’s death in the war, and denounces her to the...