The story of the crisis of Ukrainian cinema in the early 1990s due to lack of money, shows demonstrations of film workers (directors, actors, cameramen, etc.), analyzes the causes and consequences of the situation.

The film contains interviews with Ukrainian cinematographers of the time.

This film is about the residents of Poliske, the town contaminated with radioactive material after the 1986 Chornobyl disaster. Its inhabitants were left out to face this hazard. Soviet authorities did everything they could to erase the ancient history of this town, and after Chernobyl, they destroyed its future. 

The contaminated town was not evacuated up until 1993. The information about the scale of contamination was suppressed by the KGB. This film reconstructs a human portrait of this lost town through conversations with illegal settlers, evacuees, historians, and liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster.

Vasyl is a former ski jumper, who now works as a coach at the ski jumping school for children in the Carpathians. He lives far away from the civilization and the mountains are the source of his vitality. Vasyl is a loner, and sports is all his life. Thanks to Vasyl’s efforts, the ski jump and the sports school are still working.

Zhenya is a favourite Vasyl’s trainee. For five years he spent lots of energy to make her a champion. With her success, his dream comes true. She goes further in her career and starts working with another coach. The relationships of Zhenya and Vasyl are gradually changing. The girl grows up, and her motivation is not as strong as it was: she decides to try the career of an actress. Vasyl’s work seems to no longer make sense. But he founds the strength to start all over again.