January 1959, Soviet Union. In the icy Ural Mountains, a group of nine students sets out on a ski trek. Even though they all are well-experienced hikers, they never reach their destination. As their bodies turn up a month later, it leaves local investigators puzzled. Their tent was cut open from the inside, they are found frozen stiff in their underwear spread around the camp, some are even partially mangled. Whom or what did they run from? Why did they die, and how? When Oleg, a KGB major, arrives in the province, his inquiry is to be held strictly confidential. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. With the help of Katya, the local medical examiner, Oleg is hell-bent on finding the truth. But the more he learns, the more it becomes clear: The reason the students died will never see the light of day. No one can ever know what really happened. No one. Except him

改编自A·加里奇的著名戏剧“水兵寂静”（为莫斯科一条街的名称，那里有著名的“水兵寂静”监狱，斯大林时期关押政治犯的地方，俄罗斯前首富、原尤先科石油公司总裁米哈伊尔-霍多尔科夫斯基今仍关押在那里）。
一个犹太裔的爸爸，一个音乐天才的儿子，一段二战时期无法磨灭的记忆。

　　1959年1月，苏联。在冰冷的乌拉尔山区，一组九名学生开始了滑雪长途跋涉。尽管他们都是经验丰富的徒步旅行者，但他们从未到达目的地。一个月后，他们的尸体出现了，这让当地调查人员感到困惑。他们的帐篷被从里面切开，发现他们的内衣冻得僵硬散落在营地四周，有的甚至部分破损。他们逃离了谁或什么？他们为什么死，怎么死的？当克格勃少校奥列格抵达该省时，他的调查将被严格保密。他被二战老兵的经历所困扰，他有第六感，当他深入挖掘这一神秘事件时，死亡似乎也跟着他。在当地法医卡蒂亚的帮助下，奥列格下定决心要找出真相。但他学得越多，就越清楚：学生们死亡的原因永远看不到曙光。没人知道到底发生了什么。没有人。除了他。