Noted director Marta Meszaros, finished her acclaimed semi-autobiographical "diary" series which started with her 1982 Diary for My Children, with Little Vilma. After her idealist father gets swept away with Soviet propaganda about a socialist Eden, young Vilma gets packed off to Kirgizstan along with her family. Instead of finding paradise, however, they discover only totalitarian oppression and political murder. One by one, her family is killed for trumped-up charges as a part of Stalin's purges. Later, Vilma is taken to a Young Soviet school and given the more revolutionary name Nina Alexeyevna.

The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when several innocent people were persecuted for no fault of theirs. It spreads awareness about how people in Europe were tortured before Second World War by dictators and authoritarian regimes.