Set in the 1930s during Stalin's famine in Ukraine, the film follows a young mother Darka whose husband was imprisoned in Siberia. Unable to find any food for her newborn, Darka faces a choice: remaining at home with her dying kid or leaving to participate in her friend's audacious food exchange plan.
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