A Soviet teenage girl with psychic powers executes Nazi occultists in real-time combat, and the film treats it as completely straightforward historical action. The supernatural arm-wrestling match between Soviet mysticism and SS necromancy is exactly as insane as it sounds, played dead serious. This is a film that exists in the margins of anime history because nobody knows how to describe it to anyone else.
During the Second World War, German forces push toward Moscow and the Soviet Union looks close to defeat. Its best hope is the First Squad, a secret intelligence unit of teenagers with supernatural powers, but only one of them, the young medium Nadya, is still alive. She has lost her memory, yet after an air raid she gains the power to foresee Moments of Truth, rare turning points when one person's actions can decide history. An occult order within the SS, the Ahnenerbe, plans to raise the medieval knight Baron von Wolff and his undead army to win the war for the Nazis. To stop them, Nadya sets out to call her fallen comrades back from beyond the grave. The film blends wartime action with the supernatural.
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