Escape! The Chernobyl Disaster

Alina and her brother Lev live in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are sleeping peacefully. Their cousin Yuri works at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where he's busy cleaning. Alina's best friend Sofiya is also asleep a few doors down. Her father works as an engineer at the plant. It's a night like any other. Until five minutes later, when reactor number 4 explodes. Radiation spreads throughout the city for nine days before it is finally contained. For these young people and the city of Pripyat, this is the moment that changes their lives forever.