He used to design estates in Russia, but now he is helping to destroy them from the air. Andriy, whose call sign is ‘Roy’, is a well-known architect from Odesa who joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the start of the full-scale invasion and is currently the commander of an aerial reconnaissance crew. In between sorties, Roy paints, trying to ‘scream’ everything that pains him onto paper.

For him, a holiday is a journey into a past that can never be recaptured. The home where his wife awaits, the empty, dusty office, his artist friends, his former comrades. All these are fragments of his former life, amidst which he tries to understand who he is now.