Who is he, a strange man who froze on a snowy road and was picked up “out of pity” by a simple village woman? Who is he, a “tough guy” who, it seems, managed to go through all the conceivable and inconceivable circles of the camp hell - and became “one of us” in the world behind barbed wire? Perhaps a bandit who has finally decided to “get over” his criminal past? Most likely so. But... why did the old, experienced thief think that the thieves would simply take his former friend and accomplice and let him live a "peaceful life"?..