![]() If the men tracking him catch Koyla, he will die. Koyla has no answers, but is determined to unravel the mystery and find his wife and sons. Then whispers reach him of a possible perpetrator of this mass killing – Koschei, The Deathless One but he’s just a folk tale. Have the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, taken his family? Are they dead? His search turns up only the tortured and massacred bodies of the men from his village. When he arrives, though, the remote village is deserted. The long trek home is fraught with danger, but thoughts of reuniting with his wife and sons drive him onward. ![]() To survive he must go home, but desertion from the Red Army will make him a traitor. Koyla can no longer stomach such brutal and senseless killing. What began as a revolution to overthrow the tsar has devolved into civil war, and anyone deemed an enemy of the state is summarily executed. ![]()
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