[2] A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing from the surrounding Bolshevik army.
They learned that the Bolsheviks carry the bodies of the killed insurgents around local villages for identification and retaliation against their families.
To avoid this the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a remote desolate place.
The premiere of the movie was scheduled for soon after the controversial referendum held by the authoritarian pro-Russian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka,[3] but never took place as the only copy of the film had allegedly been stolen before the event.
[4] According to media, the film was banned by Lukashenka's chief ideologist of that time, Vladimir Zametalin.