Northern Russia. The Solovetskii Islands in the White Sea. An ancient monastery, turned into a concentration camp. Here, in the 1930s, famous philosophers, scholars, engineers and writers spent the last days of their lives. At the end of October and beginning of November 1937 more than one thousand prisoners were taken from the Solovetskii islands to the mainland and executed. But their letters to their loved ones were miraculously preserved. Seventy years later, the victims' children and grandchildren come to the Solovetskii Islands to commemorate their fathers and grandfathers.