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The end of 1914, during the Sarıkamış campaign. The front has run out of ammunition; there is ammunition in the depots at Van but nobody to carry it, because every man is already at the front. A school principal who lost his own son in the war proposes a way out, and 120 boys between twelve and seventeen volunteer. They take the ammunition on their backs and set out on a journey through the snow that will take days. Özhan Eren and Murat Saraçoğlu directed the film together, from a real episode. Eren came across the story while researching the Caucasus front and spent three years preparing. It was shot in Van and Safranbolu and became one of the most widely seen Turkish films of 2008.