June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

Catherine Deneuveas Gabrielle Develay
Sandrine Bonnaireas Marie
Oleg Menshikovas Aleksei Golovin
Sergei Bodrov Jr.as Sasha Vasilyev
Tatyana Dogilevaas Olga
Bohdan Stupkaas Colonel Boyko
Grigori Manoukovas Pirogov
Meglena Karalambovaas Nina Fyodorovna
Laurent Dailland