A pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, living in a picturesque river canyon in western Ukraine, is seeing their peaceful way of life gradually eroded. This closed religious community, located on the banks of the Dniester River, lives by its own strict rules, cut off from the outside world. For example, they do not use electricity or modern medicine, they do not marry outside the community, they do not join the army, and they do not take up arms.

The community's attempts to distance themselves from the outside world are often disrupted by the annual floods that take everything in their path and change the landscape of the rural shores.  

As an even more devastating “flood” approaches Ukraine, the war with Russia leaves the community with no choice but to unite and ignore their beliefs, and the villagers gradually begin to go against their own rules, joining with the outside world to help in the fight against the enemy.

In Ukraine’s post-war future, Roman, a struggling film director, dreams of making movies once again. He is residing in Kyiv with his 18-year-old son, while his beloved wife and young daughter remain in Vienna, the city they fled to at the beginning of Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion.

Much to Roman’s mounting chagrin and despite a newly elected populist government – and the fact that he’s unwilling to leave the country he fought for – his family doesn’t plan on returning to their homeland due to the poor economic and political landscapes. These, regardless of liberation and ongoing pushes from citizens, are slow to reform. As he prepares a new film with his trusted producer Volodymyr Yatsenko (the real film’s producer), his close friend Vlad may be a melancholy mirror into his own future: he has already lost his family to the allure of the West. Meanwhile, his ailing father, possessing a demeanour sourced from all that he has survived, provides a different outlook on life.

The film’s plot revolves around a young woman, Lisa, who finds herself in the world of nightclubs and semi-legal venues. Here, physical attractiveness becomes a means of survival, and every new step she takes could change her fate forever.

The heroine journeys from naivety to a harsh reality, balancing between fear and inner strength, between the desire to remain true to herself and the need to adapt to her dangerous surroundings. According to the creators, this is a story about choices, consequences and the price of freedom.