
Tanya raises two children alone during the day and works as a taxi driver at night. Everything changes when she learns about a serious diagnosis. Now she is worried about only one thing: who will the children stay with if the disease turns out to be stronger? Tanya is not ready to entrust them to unreliable relatives and decides to find a worthy man, marry him to herself, so that if something happens, he will take care of the children. The only person with whom Tanya shares her thoughts is her doctor. Suddenly the plan works, and at some point there are too many applicants.


In the freezing cold of occupied Leningrad, a group of children is sent to a so-called “children’s shelter” — a place where hunger, brutal punishment, and forced labor await, and where they are even used as blood donors for wounded German soldiers. Fear, despair, and the constant threat of death haunt their every moment. Yet, amidst the cruelty, they find strength and begin secretly planning their escape. Every small act of defiance becomes a spark of hope. In the face of unimaginable terror, they fight to survive and cling to the fragile possibility of freedom.