During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

• Telepool
• Saga Film
• Emily Watson
• Ulrich Tukur
• Ian Hart
• Benjamin Sadler
• Ben Miller
• Jimmy Yuill
• Pearce Quigley
• Monica Dolan