Synopsis With German troops being forced to retreat on the Eastern front in the late summer of 1944, there is growing panic in Eastern Germany and German lands held in central Europe. Lena the young Baroness returns to visit her terminally ill father. The Count welcomes Lena and his granddaughter Vicky to their ancestral castle estate in Eastern Prussia for the first time, for her sake only in curbing his resentment against his daughter heiress Lena, who left eight years ago, preferring her illegitimate child over his offer of an arranged wedding with count Heinrich. Lena begins to build a close friendship with Ferdinand an idealistic and now disillusioned and cynical German field officer who resents her meddling father as much as he resents the Third Reich. Lena starts to busy herself with running the war shortages programme effecting their family estate. They are dependent on French POWs as conscripted laborers as she desperately tries to protect the families who all depend on them. But as the Soviet advance becomes undeniably obvious and reports of revenge atrocities on Germans spread Lena begins to work out a plan with the estate workers French POW leader Franois, a plan that is full of danger but one that might save their community and her daughter. In the bitter winter month of January 1945 and with the help of Franois and Ferdinand they lead the whole estate community on a perilous daring run towards the West aware of the Nazi order that all 'deserters' are to be shot, including civilians. They now become a part of the biggest mass exodus of World War II. A life and death journey with high stakes as their convey is harassed and attacked on all fronts by both fanatical Nazis and the vengeful Red Army. This is a true story from WWII on an epic scale.