Chrysanthemum Day

80 minutes - Ukraine, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia - 2024

Status At the stage of production

A timeless story, the film raises the questions of what happens if a global war would go on the final stage. It starts in a parallel reality, when the first unexpected nuclear explosion impacts vast territories,
releasing a powerful wave of radiation which has destroyed everything for hundreds of kilometers around. When the devastated area was examined, a small unaffected plot of land, surrounded by white fog was found.

A few meters above the ground, in the center of a whirling ball of flowers, there was an immobile human, also covered in flowers. Numerous chrysanthemum buds hung in the air and wrapped the
surviving grass like a pulsating shield. The expedition found an old woman who was miraculously unharmed, although unresponsive.

The old woman was sent to the nearest rehabilitation center to receive treatment as soon as possible, together with the doctor who was to be in charge of her recovery process. Preliminary tests demonstrated that her memories of the world around her, and about her personality, had vanished completely.

The recovery took months. Archival documents showed that this woman cultivated chrysanthemums and was also known as a healer, mystically saving dozens of people from various diseases with her hands. The doctor gets caught in the middle between the government’s desire to exploit the old woman’s seeming immunity to the nuclear genocide and her service to her patient and society. Moral and ethical concerns arise when the doctor wants to help her, however, the government had other plans for the old woman, which did not sit well with the doctor.

Having received a clear order to achieve results, the doctor restores her memory bit by bit. In the process of recovery it becomes clear that these memories can become unbearable for the old Healer. The doctor then realizes that if she dies there might be no future for humanity...

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