Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is released from 20 years of political imprisonment in Siberia and is brought to Rome by Father David Telemond, a troubled priest who befriends him.

The Shoes of the Fisherman
A wrongly imprisoned former priest is released from a Siberian Gulag after decades behind bars, courtesy of a surprise pardon from Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev amidst the backdrop of the Cold War.