Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainian

Andriy Dovzhenko demonstrate disobedience to the Soviet system, but system is trying to break him with forbidden punitive psychiatry practice. Will his system break him?