The family history of Ivan Chendey, the legendary screenwriter of the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. A brother and sister are like body and soul. There were eleven of them in the Chendey family from Verkhovyna in the Tyachiv district. Their father and mother blessed the four brothers and five sisters. Three of them — Hanna, Olha, and Marta — recount the family’s difficult fate and that of Transcarpathia. And they also speak of their brother Ivan, who was destined to become an outstanding Ukrainian writer and screenwriter of the most famous Ukrainian film.