As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend, Anna Ojala, struggle to keep their lives intact. Then Matti is sent to the front to lay siege to Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and a suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story interweaves two cultures through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who are drawn together through a great miracle of faith.