Twelve-year-old Sacha is a solo figure skater with a dedicated trainer: his father. But Sacha is in love and has only one thing on his mind: to dance on the ice with Rebecca.

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.