War, captivity, the Vlasov movement, concentration camp, Holocaust, post-war Belgium, repatriation, the Gulag, the legendary Norilsk uprising - all this fit into the life of one specific person, in which the common experience of Russian and European history collided with the organic intolerance of coercion and lack of freedom. Nikolai V. Kononov's documentary novel "Uprising" brings to the stage a new hero of the Soviet era and explores how the very human desire for freedom works - in a captive country, in the 20th century.