In the ashen wastelands of 1940s Tarnopol, Viktor Baranov’s world is shattered by the death of his father. He is left to protect his fractured family amid occupation and famine in his Ukrainian village Hermakivka. But in an act of ruthless betrayal, his girlfriends are kidnapped. To rescue them, Viktor journeys across a landscape plagued by libertine Nazi spies called stragglers, and the ever-present threat of the Commissariat. With each step, Viktor must confront the Shadow――the malignant spirit that masks reality and threatens to govern his soul. Will he give in to the Shadow’s lures and become the demon he fears? The Shadow of the Soul is a harrowing exploration of twisted spirituality and moral ambiguity amid vile crusades against the innocent.