Larysa Kadochnikova is a screen legend of Ukrainian cinema who played Marichka in Serhii Paradzhanov’s “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”. On 24 February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she refused to evacuate and stayed in Kyiv during its offensive. The film tells the story of her life in those dire times. The story of a new reality where the past, the present, the future, memories, meditations, and dreams intertwine as the war goes on…

The cast includes the musician Oleh “Fahot” Mykhailiuta, the professor and art historian Vadym Skurativskyi, the film critic and writer Serhii Trymbach, and the collector and philanthropist Oleksandr Brei.