In the winter of 1941 in Leningrad, due to the lack of energy and unheard-of cold, the tram traffic stopped. As Daniil Granin said in his memoirs, "the city had become pedestrianized." The huge distances to get to work, to get bread and water became a real ordeal for people suffering from hunger.
After the first winter of the blockade, five tram lines resumed work and connected all parts of the city. They were organized in such a way that one could go to any district with only one change. The city breathed.
In the film, residents of the blockaded Leningrad, Aglaya Chernova (100 years old) and Anna Eliseeva (97 years old), the director of electric transport of St. Petersburg, Denis Minkin, the director of the museum of urban electric transport, Kirill Nukvist, writers and historians, give interesting details about the Leningrad tram and the hard days of the blockade.
