Raisa Yesipova

A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.

The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome.

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. (Fiona Kelleghan)

Seeing how the priests convince men to “defend the Motherland” by joining the battlefront slaughter of WWI, a young man and his wife reject religion.