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Based on true events. November 1943. The Nazis bring a new group of Soviet orphan children to Vyritsa, where a so-called "children's shelter" has been set up in a former pioneer camp. Conditions here are unbearable: cold, hunger, forced labor, solitary confinement for disobedience, execution for attempted escape. But the most terrible thing is that the children are used here as blood donors for wounded Germans... Despite all the horror and unthinkable nature of what is happening, the young heroes band together, find within themselves the strength and courage to resist, and decide to escape.