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While the mothers in Siberia wait for their soldier sons to return from the war in the west in 1945, the eight year old Eduard secretly jumps on board the trains heading in the opposite direction, heading west, towards Leningrad. Placed in a Siberian orphanage as a child because his parents were arrested as public enemies there is only one thing he wants: to go back home to Leningrad and to find his mother again.

Czech translation rights for Eduard Kochergin’s true story novel THE ESCAPE – BAPTIZED WITH CROSSES have been sold to Albatros Media. 8 Languages sold.