Dear Elza

End of 1942 Ukraine eastern front The Private Lombos Gábor Makray a soldier loyal to his homeland whose only desire as a freshman is to see his young wife again serves here However due to an administrative error he misses the train heading home He thinks it cant get any worse but the real hell only begins Educated young teacher who speaks 3 languages desperately fulfills his duty takes up arms again and marches on the Eastern Front He is wounded in an attack and survives the night behind enemy lines in a pit This is when he meets a mysterious old man Tamás Varga and this meeting changes everything The old mans words shake his unbroken faith in his military family and homeland At dawn Russian soldiers find them and Lombos is captured and then caught among the tramplers The old man then also appears among the enemys ranks walks in the shadows and tries to keep the young soldier alive at all costs with his advice