A film about various destinies related to the exile that followed the 1863 – 1864 uprising. The heroes of the film are descendants of Lithuanian deportees who were forced to leave their homeland in 1864 and found themselves in the back-country of : Chornaya Padina village in Saratovo region. This village became an
island
of
Lithuanians
for a hundred years, thousands of kilometres away from their homeland.