In 1919, during the bloody Bolshevik massacre of “whites” in the Crimea, Red Army soldier Ivan Yavorsky rescued a four-year-old girl stunned by the horrors of war. He suspects that the child is the daughter of a white general, so in order to save her life, he decides to hide her in his native village, in his family’s home. But when he gets home, he realizes that he has no village or family left now.

So two strangers – a warrior Ivan and a girl Maria, related by common grief, become a father and a daughter. Fleeing the war, they go to a distant island, where Ivan becomes a lighthouse keeper. The island will become not only their new home, but will give them a new life.