Nicolas Cinquini

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Serebryanskyi Forest, July 2025. Here, among the century-old pines, brutal battles have raged for the third year in a row. Every meter of forest is stitched with lead, the earth torn open by craters, the air soaked with gunpowder.

A signalman with the call sign Tishina receives a dangerous mission – restore a severed frontline communications line. Without it, positions go blind: artillery falls silent, the wounded are left without help, orders vanish into the ether. Here, every broken wire means a life.

Setting off, Tishina is ready to risk his own. But he doesn’t yet know the forest has three unexpected encounters in store for him…

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