The year was 1951.. World War II ended four years earlier. Ava MacArthur is now 22 years old and got out of being an American solider due to her serving what she needed to do for her father. Ivan Sokolov is now 23 years old and is still Russian solider, him and Ava have been together for 5 1/2 years and Ivan has been wanting to tell her how he truly felt and wanted to take their relationship one huge step further.