White Angel of the Tundra

1937. A wave of repressions began across the Soviet Union. They affected a family of doctors—the Oblezovs, grandfather, father, and son, were falsely accused. Fearing that her daughter, Lydia, would suffer the same fate, her mother accompanied her to the unknown North. When a typhoid epidemic broke out among the reindeer herders, she treated the sick and eventually became infected herself.