Plot Summary:Russia, 1984. Faced with an illness, Andrei, a meek boy of 11, enters a children's hospital for a long-term stay. But within the crumbling walls he soon discovers a starved community of patients fearfully operating under the piercing watch of the hospital staff. Here Andrei realizes that illness is just one of the things he needs to survive.
Russia, 1984. Faced with an illness, Andrei, a meek boy of 11, enters a children's hospital for a long-term stay. But within the crumbling walls he soon discovers a starved community of patients fearfully operating under the piercing watch of the hospital staff. Here Andrei realizes that illness is just one of the things he needs to survive.