A woman caring for someone with a fever reminds them to rest. Shortly after, a voice commands them not to move, followed by urgent shouts to run. Anna Berezina, a Russian noblewoman, reveals her traumatic past: she witnessed her family's murder at fourteen and carries the memory of a man's tattoo. Years later, as she flees the fallen Tsar's Russia, soldiers stop her journey, demanding everyone's papers as they hunt fugitives.