A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
as Kostas
as Tauras
as Julė
as Eduardas
as Partisan Voveris
as Kosta's neighbor
as Lieutenant
as Lieutenant-colonel
as Svetlana
as School head-master
as Partizanu rysininke
as Major
as Soviet colaborator Anatolijus
as Schoolgirl Veronika