This is the remarkable tale, as told by the survivors, of what happened after the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939 under the Nazi-Soviet Friendship Treaty.

When eastern Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union, entire towns and communities were brutally deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan to Soviet forced labour camps. By the time the Nazis attacked their Soviet allies in 1941, it is estimated half of the labour camp inmates had died from the harsh labour conditions that were characteristic of the Soviet 'Gulag'.

With the tide of the war changing, the Soviet Union was brought into the anti-Nazi Alliance and the those Poles that had managed to survive the camps were released.

However, freedom was not that simple. Most faced a harsh journey across the epic, hostile and war-torn Soviet landscape in order to join the freed Polish Army, which was being formed in the south. While this army became pivotal to the Allied forces in the European South-East, when the war ended Poland became part of the Soviet Union and these refugees never made it back to their original destination.

Researched vigorously and using footage from people who lived through this terrible time, we present with vivid detail this rarely told, yet incredibly important chapter of World War II history.