Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, took control of the farms in the Ukraine like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food...