Set in Kazakhstan in 1949, during a time when minorities were forced to move to central Asia by the former Soviet government. It is the year of the first Soviet experiment of the atomic bomb and the 70th birthday of Stalin.. A Jewish kid named Sashka is on a train with his grandfather, being deported with others. His grandfather dies on the train and he has to get off with the body at a small village. He meets an old man, Kasym, and stays with him. But the tragedy is upon the village. Every villager is killed and only Sashka survived. But he doesn’t forget his parents. He wants to rejoin them. If he realizes the best gift for Stalin maybe that Josip Vissarionovich will help him to meet them…
