A documentary film based on archival footage, using exceptional footage from the battlefield, the home front and travel to present World War II as a kind of slow-motion black-and-white dream. The film is dedicated to the memory of the famous front-line cameraman Vladislav Mikoshi (1909-2004) and was made based on Mikoshi's book of the same name about his life. The director collected materials for the film in Russia, in the Krasnogorsk archives of film and photo documents. During the war, Mikosha filmed the defense of Sevastopol, was wounded and sent to Moscow for treatment. And after recovering, he learned with bitterness that German troops were still occupying Crimea. Mikosha was sent to Arkhangelsk, from where, as part of a group of four cameramen, he went to England, filming the raid of a British warship escorting an important cargo for the USSR under Lend-Lease. In the Barents Sea, the ship was repeatedly bombed by the Germans, and there were minefields all around. It was very dangerous to return the same way. And the Soviet operators were given permission to fly over America. Together with his colleagues, Mikosha visited New York and then California, just at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, and in Hollywood he was received as a real hero. He was a hero: thanks to his courage and skill, unique cinematographic footage of historical moments of the Second World War has been preserved!
