Babiy Yar - The Forgotten Crime

Drama taking place on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Kiev in 1941. Two families - Jewish and Ukrainian ponder what the future may hold for them. Genady Lerner a Jew and the patriarch of a relatively large extended family, watches with profoundly mixed emotions as the Russian army retreats from the Ukrainian city under intense bombardment from the advancing Nazi army. Skeptical of the rumors abounding regarding the Nazis' extermination of the Jewish race, Genady opts to remain at the family home. Meanwhile, Genady's longtime neighbor Lena Onofrienko decides that assisting the invading army may be in her best interests, in spite of her friendship with the Lerners.