Listen Young Lovers

Originally Aired: February 14, 1956 Suspense #637, "Listen Young Lovers," presents the harrowing true story of Yinrik and Milana, two young lovers in communist-controlled Czechoslovakia. When Yinrik, a 21-year-old university student, is caught reading forbidden Western philosophy, he faces brutal interrogation by party officials who offer him a choice: submit to ideological re-education or face execution. Comrade Stepan, one of his inquisitors, later visits Yinrik and his fiancée Milana at home, delivering a chilling ultimatum that makes clear the young man's time is running out. The couple realizes they have no future under the oppressive regime that has already claimed other students who dared to think freely. Desperate and out of options, Yinrik and Milana make a fateful decision: they will attempt to escape to freedom together, undertaking the dangerous 300-mile journey to the border. Armed with only candy bars, determination, and small bottles of poison in case of capture, the young lovers set out on foot through a countryside filled with guards, informers, and patrol dogs. As they make their way from Prague toward the border, exhausted and hunted, their love and courage are tested at every turn.