The film explores the question: is Russia committing genocide in Ukraine? One of the most authoritative scholars in this field, William Shabas, argues that it is not. His colleague Eugene Finkel insists that it is. Ukrainian scholar Dmytro Koval, in turn, emphasises that without the term “genocide,” it is impossible to truly understand the Russians' war against the Ukrainians.

In the film, its author, journalist Danylo Mokryk, talks not only to scientists, but also to Ukrainians who have suffered from war crimes, in order to get closer to answering a question that is much more complex than it might seem at first glance.