A Finnish taxi driver in Berlin gets in over his head when he accepts a fare from two men with briefcases full of money stolen from ruthless gangsters.

The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman he loved join a brothel, can no longer be happy.

The story of a Leningrad teenage girl who endured the tragic winter of the blockade and died from weakness and hunger just when the hope for the city's liberation became a reality.