Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalinās āGreat Terrorā of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitrievās riveting story is a tale of one manās fight against the erasure of history by the state