A soaring, action-packed journey of heroism and sacrifice as one crusading journalist desperately fights to uncover the horrors buried within the infamous Nazi siege of Leningrad in the savage winter of 1941. At the height of World War II, journalist Kate Davis becomes trapped within the devastated city of Leningrad. Separated from her lover, American writer Philip Parker, Kate is rescued by Nina Tsvetkova, a member of the Leningrad militia who provides refuge for those escaping those horrors of war that have come so close to home. With the enemy's grip closing ever tighter on the war-ravaged city, stray bullets and catastrophic bombing raids a daily peril, this makeshift band of survivors must battle to stay alive and fight for the ultimate prize: their freedom. An epic story, inspired by true events, featuring an acclaimed, award-winning cast, this is the tale of the tragedy that befell Leningrad: at over 800 days, it was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history.

The Second World War, on the European Eastern Front, which was primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, was the most savage and destructive war in history. The Soviet Union alone sustained an estimated 22-30 million dead, figures that include civilians. General Heinz Guderian, architect of the blitzkrieg, famously was able to see the Kremlin from the top of a hill, before the Soviets committed fresh divisions from the Far East, to push the Germans back before Moscow. Stalin has largely been discredited today and the city that once bore his name was renamed Volgograd, yet “Stalingrad” and the associated house-to-house fighting lives on as a metro stop in Paris, since it was the turning point of the European War. Of the three cities, Leningrad suffered the most, primarily because the Germans tried to starve out the civilians. An estimated 1.5 million civilians died, mainly from lack of food.