A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.