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Lina Villas, Fifteen year old, Jonas, his younger and brother, and their mother Elena live in Lithuania. Then, there is a intense knock at the door. It is the secret police of the Soviet Union. They demand them to immediately collect their possessions or endanger lives.

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Elena packs the things and Lina tries to calm down, while her children were being arrested. They have no idea where their father is: Kostas

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Elena was breaking glass, or according to the authorities destroying Soviet property, she explains that is an accident. She then is allowed to go to the bathroom. While she looking in the mirror Lina says that this would be the last time she would  see her reflection in over a decade.

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Then a bald man starts screaming, saying that they are all going to die, Elena says is not true, but the bald man jumps out of the truck in an attempt to commit suicide. Afterwards the truck stops, and the officers throw the man back into the truck , with a bad  leg. The truck stops in the  hospital, but not for the bald man but a woman giving birth that will be forced again into the train when the baby’s umbilical cord is cut.

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The authorities bring in the woman who has just given birth  with her newborn. A doctor runs after her, begging the officers to let him take care of the child.

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The girl who have birth tells Elena her name is Ona, and that her husband, Vitas, was taken. Ona wails for her baby, soaked in blood, while the bald man cries because of the pain in his leg. The truck arrives at a station where people yell from the trucks, searching for missing family members.

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The group is pushed towards trains, and the families are separated. They exchanged the father's gold pocket watch for letting Jonas stay with the family.

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They try to stay with the group because people are getting split up. Then, they were pushed onto train cars to live in. Lina was supposed to be with Ona, the bald man, and the baby in the car, but she jumped off the car and start running. Once on the train, Elena comforts her, and tells her the most important thing is that they stay together.

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The train car is full and there are no more people to carry the injured. Elena tries to find privacy in the train car so that they can change, but a woman with children doesn´t let her, until an older man gives him a suitcase for them to stand on.

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Lina and Jonas start to chat with a teen boy: Andrius. He tells them that his father is in the army, and that he has been gone for a while. Andrius says he saw someone beaten for trying to run away, and they believe it might be Kostas.

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They finally find Kostas in an horrible state, in the bathroom holes, and he gives them some food and clothes.

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Lina cries as she handed the ring, when they are caught by a guard. Andrius also doesn´t return with.

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Most passengers refuse to eat from a  bucket of slope. Joans finds a package from Regina and split  the food inside with the others. Ona´s baby still doesn´t want to eat.

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At night, Lina finds Andrius beaten up, so she jumps out to help him out. She despises the NKVD now more than ever.

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At morning, the train is closed and moving, outside a lot of food and luggage was visible. Lina concluded that the priest outside was issuing last rites for passengers.

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The train arrives to Vilnius, there they split the people. Then the men started singing the Lithuanian national anthem, which makes Lina cry.

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They opened the car door once a day to throw dead people out of the train. Lina admits to wanted to run away, but Elena told her is best to stick together.

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Jonas marks how many children had died. Elena speaks to a man that explains to her that they are soldiers, USRR is at war with Germany, which has invaded Lithuania. Ona´s baby dehydrated dies.

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Ona griefs both her baby and husbands lost. A lot of hope is lost.

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Ona doesn´t want to get rid of the baby even is its rotting, so they help her doing it. Jonas and Andrius become friends, Lina thinks Andrius is a bad influence because Jonas smokes his first cigarette with him.

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They keep traveling, Lina bribes a guard to allow her to buy things for the passengers like: candy, matches, and cigarettes. Lina comments how cute Andrius looks when he smiles.

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They are finally allowed to get out of the train and stretch properly. Lina gives the bald man a drawing to give to Kostas. Lina hears they're selling the passengers to other people.

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They give them some food and water. The NKVD inspect the train cars and yell at the passengers for “disrespecting” the cars. Andrius concludes that they will go back for more passengers to get a bigger crowd to kill.

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Lina, Andrius, and Lonas lie in the grass and think about the freedom around them.

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Very few people are left. Lina starts to fall for Andrius. The group is put into a truck, and then to bathhouse, where men and women are separated. Then, the guards tell everyone to remove their clothes for delousing.