Milena survived the destruction of Mariupol, cowering for a month in the basement of a bombed-out building, watching her home and history burn. With food running low, Milena was “liberated” by Russians and taken at gunpoint to a Russian-controlled refugee camp in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic. She managed to contact Ken Pontac, long-time facebook friend and father figure. Here she slept on a filthy, freezing floor with her mother, grandmother, and 200 other kidnapped Ukrainians. After being rescued by a sympathetic Russian, Milena and family was released to a small apartment nearby. But she was still a prisoner. With Kens help and the heroic efforts of the international team he assembled, three generations of the family were extricated from their imprisonment, furtively couch surfing through Russian safe-houses until finally reaching what they believed was freedom in Estonia. A red-tape nightmare forced the family to return to their war-torn home, where they await the international documents that will help them find a life on the other side of the world…if only they’re not recaptured by Russian troops again!