During the winter Poland is found in the camp by accident. Ukrainian unit drags him out of darkness, snow and filthy nightmares. Noone recognizes him that day – there is no way to do – and they simply wait for him to die. His condition is too bad, they say. His spin is shattered.

He doesn't die. It's Lithuania who orders to send Poland to Moscow, when he is touring the front once again. People don't ask if he is sure. He must be, even if he leaves to west very quickly and without the word.

Russia orders to look for Belarus everywhere, but she is already missing for two years and all the hope disappeared along with surrender of Berlin. She wasn't there. Nor in Poland, nor Slovakia, nor Sweden. Russia waits.

They find her with the beginning of the spring in a field hospital in USRR. For them she is just another girl from partisans. Half-dead, they say. Very weak. And something went wrong with her eyes, when the world around exploded.

Ukraine takes her to Ivan's home anyway.

Sometimes, when they both lie, unconscious, next to each other, Russia sits between their two fair, shaved heads, and thinks that he doesn't want them to die.