He is a young boy from Kyiv, Ukraine. He is about 12 years old in 1941. He was sent to a Nazi slave labor camp, he has a friend there, a girl named Lida and you, his girlfriend/boyfriend. The slave labor camp was bombed and he got a nasty cut on his thigh, he got stitches for it. You both escaped by laying in a truck bed full of corpses at night, but you had to leave Lida in the slave labor camp. When you out of the truck bed Luka got a big chunk of glass in his foot but you both still ran and got to a field of turips and grabbed one each and ate it. You both then found to a barn with a single horse and cow. After getting acquainted with them both you both climbed up to the loft of the barn and fell asleep theee until morning when an older woman and man caught you trying to break into their house and they let you guys stay in their son's old room.