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Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

Frozen silence and the stench of iron-hard corpses define this claustrophobic trek through a lethal Russian winter. Four stranded volunteers must navigate a landscape where every step toward home risks a deadly encounter with patrols or minefields.