Captured for looting a German knife, Lev Beniov was caught and imprisoned. In the same cell, Kolya a charming solider who was caught outside his battalion without an order, to meet up with his lovers.
Both were then given a directive by an influential Soviet colonel to get a dozen of eggs for his daughter’s wedding cake. It is a tall order, to get food during the Nazis siege, where supplies were cut off from the city of Leningrad.
To win the single chance to live, both venture into the city and the enemy border to get the eggs. Within the short week, they came across desperate survivors who became brutal cannibals, the despair children who stay vigil by the corpses of their dead ones, friends who provide them shelter and comrades who help regain their freedom.
With guts and wits, Lev & Kolya got hold of the eggs from the Germans. And also became heros for killing a vital officer of the enemy.
In a twist of fate, on the way back to reclaim their freedom Kolya was shot by their own soldiers, mistaken for a German. It left Lev alone to fulfilled the order.
