A 10-year-old boy living in 1930s Soviet Ukraine flees with a blind Ukrainian folk minstrel after the boy's American engineer father is killed for possessing secret documents. The minstrel helps the boy grow up and survive with a pure heart, sharing stories that show him there's a different reality beyond the harsh surroundings.
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In a tumultuous 1930s Soviet Ukraine, an American boy named Peter and a blind minstrel named Ivan are unexpectedly brought together by circumstance.