Russia 1774 A decade after the colonization of the Lower Volga the German villages endure the siege of the barbarians that lurk in the region as well as the threat of the armies led by Yemelian Pugachev the rebel Cossack who intends to dethrone the empress Catherine II
In this turbulent setting the village of Mariental is attacked by a group of Kyrgyz nomads who kidnap among other colonists the young Katharina Her brother Georg sets forth on her...