Leaves Flying in the Wind

April 1944. From the special report of Captain Kovalenko: "...Among those enrolled in the echelon... at the station Zheltovka Kurgan... the cargo arrived without the designation of the departure station and paperwork, listed in the general escort invoice as a group of juvenile delinquents in the amount of 23 male and female units..." About this strange trailer and its inhabitants - 16-year-old homeless Anton, his friend, his peer Shaban, two sisters Zoya and Shurochka, interned German Fischer-Rybakov, their ordeal in the vast Siberia, far from the front.April 1944. From the special report of Captain Kovalenko: "...Among those enrolled in the echelon... at the station Zheltovka Kurgan... the cargo arrived without the designation of the departure station and paperwork, listed in the general...