Luciusz Kšelewski is a medical student from an aristocratic Polish family, who ends up at the epicenter of World War I. Hoping to complete his practice in military surgery, the young man gets placed in a makeshift hospital devastated by typhus—a hospital located in an old wooden church among the Carpathian Mountains. The medical staff fled, except for a mysterious nurse-nun, and Luciusz becomes the only qualified doctor and surgeon with not a single operation behind him. And one day, when a soldier—unconscious, brought in from the snow, whose rescue seems impossible—Luciusz makes a fateful decision that will forever change his life. Critics place “The Winter Soldier” alongside novels like “Doctor Zhivago,” “The English Patient,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Combining scope and intimacy, harshness and tenderness, this story strikes with credibility and reminds us of love for life.