The first operation in a women's prison: What was the chief surgeon forced to do? She opened a mo...
What happens when Moscow's best cardiac surgeon is sent to a women's prison on false charges? How do you survive when the system forces you to choose between your conscience and your life?
Irina Volkova, chief cardiac surgeon at the First City Hospital, received eight years in prison for causing the death of a patient on the operating table. But the real nightmare began not in the courtroom, but behind the barbed wire of Correctional Labor Colony No. 8, where the cruel Shark reigns supreme – a former military paramedic who turned the prison infirmary into a hub for the trafficking of human organs. How Irina fell into a trap between the prison warden and the leader of a criminal gang
Why she was forced to perform horrific surgeries on dead bodies
What price had to be paid to remain a doctor and maintain her humanity
How a group of political prisoners plotted a daring escape and expose the system
Why a pregnant prisoner died on the operating table at the hands of her own rapist
Did Irina manage to escape hell and bring the truth to Moscow?
The story of a doctor who survived the hell of Soviet labor camps in the 1980s, faced organ trafficking, rape, and murder, but never broke. This is a story about how to maintain your profession and conscience when the system demands you become a criminal.
Based on real events from the archives of Soviet correctional labor institutions during the 1980s.