二战末，冬季的荷兰小城冰天雪地，战争让整个城市显得阴霾异常。小男孩米歇尔和同伴跑去一架坠毁的飞机残骸附近玩，却被驻扎的德军抓住，还好米歇尔的市长父亲和德国人的关系看起来不错，他很快便被父亲领回了家。本叔叔的到来令米歇尔兴奋不已，但本叔叔却警告他不要卷入到战争中去。 米歇尔打开德克留下的信封，根据信的内容发现了隐匿在树林里负伤的英国飞行员杰克。米歇尔几次帮助杰克逃走，却都以失败告终。而米歇尔的父亲最终被德军杀害，万般无奈下，米歇尔只好找本叔叔帮忙。看着本叔叔带着杰克和护士姐姐越走越远，米歇尔回想起这个冬天的整个事件，发现本叔叔竟然是隐藏在自己家的德军奸细。

A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go find work abroad, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Months pass and his family hear no word from him. A stranger, a mechanic, arrives in town in search of work. His eyes wander to the beautiful young woman whom he hears no longer has a husband. A struggle to survive of a generation torn between wanting to leave its country yet bound by blood to home. Written by Gordon Spragg

Middle Ural, winter. A time of silence and hibernation. The bright future is anticipated yet covered with a thick layer of snow, hidden by the blizzard. Spring and summer lie somewhere very far, beyond the obliterating winter.

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.

故事发生在1942年，哈萨克斯坦的巴甫洛达尔镇的一队远东军中。 坦克手斯捷潘急切地想见到自己的母亲，而正在哨所站岗的士兵 利托夫金却面临艰难的抉择：是服从军令，还是让母亲去见他的 儿子。

A Russian-Canadian filmmaker gains unprecedented access to follow a Russian Army battalion in Ukraine.

本片将近距离展现受气候影响的灾民们艰难求生的过程。这些灾民大多是无家可归的妇女，她们每日往返于河道之间，前往不同的地方打工，同时盼望着能重返家园。