Based on Yevhen Mytko's story “Now I am a Turk, not a Cossack…”.

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov. Seventeen-year-old Frosya and Lenchik fall in love with their first passionate love: they dream of getting married. But Frosya is Ukrainian, and Lyonchyk is Jewish, it is very difficult for the girl's father to be related to her. Alexei Ivanovich is a good man, but a kind of Orthodox believer. How can he give up his beliefs and let a non-believer into his family? Frosi's pregnancy. The first day of the war. A pot on the front. Occupation. A bombed-out dance floor, denunciations, looting, fascist terror against Jews, everyone is shot, even children of mixed blood…