The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, amo...
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russian and German with damaged peronal stories and a strange tranformation: the victor seem to be crawling into the skin of the defeated, and vice vera. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Train become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of other.
