When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet
Union, their troops quickly
besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them,
Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city
she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and
together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the
people in the besieged Leningrad. It is 1941, and World War II rages on;
the Nazis succeeded in taking over half of Europe and part of Russia
until they reached Leningrad. Hitler fails to take Leningrad after a
four-month-long offensive in 1941. Hitler realizes that Leningrad could
not be taken by force, and now he will surround the city for three
years, and starve three million people to death. In the midst of this
horrific siege, a young English journalist, Kate Davis, finds herself
among surviving Russians within the famished city of Leningrad.