影片的主人公是一名二战英雄,战后来到一座西部利亚小城当起了火车司机。真正给他们带来的极大的肉体和心灵的创伤,英雄们于是将火车视为膜拜的对象,疯狂的追求提升火车的速度。人和车似乎已经不分你我。英雄们就在这片西伯利亚丛林中,开始了一场不顾生命安全的火车竞速比赛。The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.