During the retreat from Baku in 1920, prisoners of the White Army counterintelligence are dropped off on an uninhabited island in the Caspian Sea, where they are left to die of hunger and thirst. Four of them—the Bolsheviks Miller, Zanoza, Nesterova, and the scientist Shatsky—manage to escape.
Aleksandr Chausov
Oleksandra Vasylieva
Nikolay Radischev
Vitaliy Perezhogin
Li Gersu
