In the midst of the deadly famine of the early 1930s in the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) a lone gravedigger is given a dangerous mission: deliver a critical letter to a distant city in a desperate bid to save lives. Haunted by hunger and the weight of death his journey becomes even more perilous when he encounters a mysterious stranger who offers to show him a path. But as the gravedigger ventures deeper into the unknown he must decide if this stranger can be trusted or if he s leading him to his doom. A gripping tale of survival trust and human endurance. Kazakh language film with English Spanish and French subtitles.