The central figure of this documentary is Nora Kinsky, a nurse of the Red Cross, who commited her life to the care of prisoners of war. Six months prior to the Russian Revolution the Bohemian noblewoman travels through Siberia to take care for German and Austrai-Hungarian prisoners of war. These journeys of nurses were initiated by the Czar to fight the grievances in the camps and the compliance with the Haager war arrangements.
Among the prisoners there were many men, who later became notorious like Josip Broz Tito, later Marshal and president of Yugoslawia, Roland Freisler, judge under Hitler, Ernst Reuter, later mayor of Berlin, Otto Bauer, an Austrian social democrat, Bela Kun, key figure in the Hungarian republic of councilors, the German author Edwin Erich Dwinger and the Austrian writers Heimito von Doderer and Jaroslav Hasek.
All these characters were directly affecected by the Russian Revolution and the changes it caused.