He emigrated to Paris, Kim turns to his childhood friend, Arkady. Before being separated at the age of fourteen, the two boys grew up together in a village community, not far from Leningrad. Kim and Arkady living happy years. Both pioneers in a youth movement, they walk proudly toward the radiant horizon promise them propaganda films, the rhythm of songs that celebrate the heroes of the war and the mythical figure of the worker. But some parents are heavy silences of innuendo. Gradually emerges in them the feeling they were duped. And for the adult in the eyes for a long time opened, the nostalgia is twofold: that of scenes from the childhood memory of a light snow bath, is added the more unexpected at the time of lies and of blindness.