This tragic yet heart-warming tale of a young couple trying to build a life in the aftermath of civil war is based on a short story by censored Russian writer Andrey Platonov (1899"1951) It shows the ruins of 1920s Russia, where victorious soldier Nikita returns home battered and worn to his drunken father and to Lyuba, a girl he remembers from before the war. Against a backdrop full of unexploded ordnance and the ghosts of the lost, Nikita and Lyuba must pick their way to some kind of future.