In the night of the 20th to the 21st of August 1968, a half million soldiers from neighbouring socialist countries occupied their “brother country” Czechoslovakia. This was the forcible end to the Prague Spring, which, by giving a “human face to socialism”, had awoken the hope of liberalisation and democracy throughout Europe. The film remembers the tragedy that unfolded at the heart of the continent forty years ago. Radio Prague played a central role because it was on the radio that opposition to the tanks was articulated. Jiri Dienstbier, a journalist at the time, organised the opposition. Twenty years later he was Vaclav Havel’s Foreign Minister. Television announcer Kamila Mouckova continued to present programs with Russian machine guns pointed at her head and spent the next 20 years struggling through life as a cleaning lady for this. Photographer Josef Raz documented the bloodshed in front of Radio Prague in the first weeks after the invasion. A bullet, with which Soviet soldiers intended to eliminate him as a witness, missed and instead took the life of an innocent youth. Film director, Jiri Menzel, 1968 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film was censored and banned from his profession. The film is framed by the tragic love story of a German student and a Ukrainian girl that nearly ended with their deaths. Today, Ljubov and Herbert meet again in Prague and recall the old terror.