Precious Cargo

Four men, stricken down by life, gather on a desolate beach for their one final statement about life and death.

It's early spring in 1945 and the end of the war is approaching. The partisans blow up a bridge in the Bohemian-Moravian Uplands. An SS troop settles down in a village near by and forces the village people to fix the bridge. An attack by a British plane interferes with the work and the German soldiers shoot the plane down. The pilot Karel Korán, who is of Czech origin, survives and hides in the tailor Skýva's house. Skýva's niece Jelena tries to take the pilot to the partisans that night. Enraged by the failure of the search for the pilot, the SS commander summons all the people from the village. He wants to know who supports the partisans, where the secret arms magazine is, where the pilot is hiding, and he threatens them with executions.

Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.

Achrome is an anti-war parable about a man and his vulnerability in the face of history. Maris, the film's protagonist, is the village idiot, brought up by his older brother. Following his brother, Maris leaves their peaceful village and joins the military. It is as if he enters a different world, the world of war. There he meets Leah, a young woman sentenced to death. Through her eyes, Maris is able to see himself. For Leah, and for all who will see his name in the archives in the future, Maris will remain a murderer, no matter whether he killed or not. All his features will be erased, all save one - his guilt. But surely, there must be a way to separate oneself from the archive? To get yourself back?