On February 24, 2022, Russian troops entered the Chornobyl exclusion zone. They seized the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, held the plant's employees captive, looted, and needed the zone itself as a transit area for further advancement to Kyiv.

The documentary project The Visible Enemy tells what the occupation of the exclusion zone by the Russian army was really like. The project's creative team tried to establish the chronology of the events of February 24 and collected the memories of direct witnesses to the events: exclusion zone employees, self-settlers, border guards, and a rescue team that spent the entire period of occupation in Chornobyl.