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The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

A young boy’s desperate search for meaning amidst a Nazi occupation curdles into a hallucinatory nightmare of sensory overload. The camera stays uncomfortably close to his face as the innocence of a Belarusian village dissolves into total, visceral devastation.

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