The film stars Stanislav Boklan, Anton Greene, Jeff Burrell, Iryna Sanina and Jamala.

It focuses around a young Peter Shamrock who serves as the guide of a blind bard in Soviet Ukraine.

[2] It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards,[3] but was not nominated.

[8] Set during the early 1930s in Soviet Ukraine, American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism".

However, Michael gets his hands onto secret documents about a planned mass seizure of food by the Soviets.