"About feats and victories, about pioneers and even about life in a murderous concentration camp in the Far North—quite a lot has already been written. It was written responsibly, seriously. I won’t do a better job. But in the life of the heroes, they are just people, and they are surrounded by people—sometimes very stubborn, with stubborn fates. They are, one way or another, destined for what the heroes do. It’s about these ordinary people that I decided to tell..."