A travelling exhibition compiled in 2019 in memory of the 16 May – 26 June 1954 uprising of political prisoners that took place in the Kengir forced labour camp (Karaganda district of the Kazakh SSR). Men and women Lithuanian prisoners in the labour camp actively participated in this uprising. The political prisoners’ uprising, which lasted more than 40 days, was brutally suppressed. Lithuanians were among the dead and wounded.

The chronicle of the Kengir uprising, photographs, documents, charts, maps, and “freeze-frames” of the film vividly and powerfully recreate the scale of the uprising of the political prisoners, the brutality with which it was suppressed by tanks and the armed forces, and the treatment of the prisoners in the aftermath of the suppression.