Come and See (2019) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Flyora digs up the rifle to join the Soviet partisans resisting the German occupation. Despite the village elder's warning that this reckless act would draw German attention, Flyora and another boy make the desperate choice to fight, marking their dangerous entry into the resistance.

Foreshadowing: The village elder warns that digging up the rifle will bring German retaliation, a warning that proves tragically accurate.

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• rifle
• partisans
• german occupation
• resistance

Kosach orders Flyora and several others to stay behind when the main fighting group departs for training. This crushing decision leaves Flyora uncertain about his role in the war and triggers his emotional breakdown in the forest, where he encounters Glasha.

Foreshadowing: Flyora's abandonment sets the stage for his journey back home, which leads to discovering his family's fate.

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• flyora
• partisan camp
• left behind
• commander

Glasha is a young partisan nurse living in the harsh wartime environment of the forest camp. Her emotional fragility reflects the psychological toll of war on adolescents, and her presence provides a counterpoint to Flyora's own trauma as they flee together.

Foreshadowing: Glasha's emotional state foreshadows the psychological destruction that awaits Flyora throughout the film.

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• nurse
• partisan
• emotional breakdown
• trauma

When Flyora and Glasha return to his village, they find it deserted. Glasha discovers a pile of executed villagers behind Flyora's house, including his family. She urges him to flee before German forces return, but Flyora initially clings to hope that his family survived on an island beyond the bog.

Foreshadowing: The elder's repeated warnings about the consequences of digging up the rifle echo as Flyora learns the full cost of his decision.

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• executed
• village massacre
• glasha discovers

Overwhelmed by guilt after learning his family was killed as retaliation for his actions, Flyora submerges his head in the bog, attempting suicide. The guilt of having dug up the rifle and drawing German attention to his village consumes him, but Glasha and the villagers pull him out and refuse to let him surrender.

Foreshadowing: This suicide attempt represents the psychological breaking point that Flyora experiences after witnessing the consequences of war.

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• bog
• guilt
• family death
• psychological breakdown

Rubezh leads Flyora and two other men to raid a warehouse for food, but German troops unexpectedly guard it. During the retreat, Flyora watches his two companions killed by a land mine, turning the failed raid into a deadly disaster.

Foreshadowing: The failed raid marks the beginning of escalating losses that culminate in Rubezh's death.

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• rubezh
• land mine
• failed raid
• german troops

Rubezh and Flyora coerce a Nazi-collaborating farmer to surrender his cow, hoping to move it to safety. During the exchange, a German machine gun opens fire, killing both Rubezh and the cow in a brutal moment of loss.

Foreshadowing: Rubezh's death leaves Flyora vulnerable and ultimately leads to his capture and arrival at Perekhody village.

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• cow
• machine gun
• killed
• partisan

German troops herd the villagers into a church, seal the doors, and brick up the windows before setting the building ablaze. A young woman with her child escapes initially, but the child is thrown back inside as the mother is dragged away to be raped. The screams of the trapped villagers merge with the soldiers' laughter as they burn alive.

Foreshadowing: This horrifying event represents the climax of the film's depiction of systematic Nazi brutality.

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• perekhody
• burning
• villagers
• german brutality

A German officer forces Flyora to stand with a pistol pressed to his head for a photograph, treating the boy's potential execution as a twisted souvenir or propaganda image. He then abandons Flyora as the soldiers depart, leaving the traumatized boy to witness the aftermath of the massacre.

Foreshadowing: This grim photograph moment symbolizes how the Nazis dehumanized their victims as objects for their twisted entertainment.

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• photograph
• pistol
• flyora
• execution photo

German troops and collaborators occupy Perekhody village and systematically round up the women, children, and elderly. Flyora warns the villagers they are being led to their deaths, but he is corralled into the barn church with them. The Germans then seal the building for a mass execution through fire.

Foreshadowing: Flyora's warning about their fate proves horrifyingly accurate, showing the inevitability of the Nazi killing machine.

• villagers
• rounded up
• church
• german occupation
• mass execution

Having already witnessed the destruction of his own village and the execution of his family, Flyora recognizes the signs of an impending massacre. He desperately tries to warn the people of Perekhody that they are being herded to their deaths, but his warnings go unheeded as the Germans force everyone into the church.

Foreshadowing: This moment shows Flyora's transformation from a naive boy who dug up a rifle to someone who understands the full horror of Nazi occupation.

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• villagers
• massacre
• german occupation
• recognize signs