The Guide

Ukraine, 1930s. American engineer Michael Shamrock (Jeff Burrell) arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year old son, Peter (Anton Greene) to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga (Jamala) who has another admirer, Communist Commissar Vladimir.

Under tragic circumstances, the American is killed and his son is saved from his pursuers by a blind Kobzar (Stanislav Boklan). With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, the boy becomes his guide. Their journey, full of dangerous adventures, unfolds against the background of one of the most dramatic pages of Ukrainian history and human destruction.