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.

The film explores the phenomenon of Ukraine’s former Minister of Internal Affairs, Denys Monastyrskyi (1980–2023) — his values and priorities, his unconventional leadership style, the reformist ideas he managed to implement before the war, as well as the tough, often controversial decisions he initiated with the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in order to defend our state.

Speakers featured in the film include: Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Kirill Budanov, Ruslan Stefanchuk, Denys Shmyhal, Zhanna Monastyrska, Oleksii Reznikov, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ihor Klymenko, Anton Herashchenko, Viktor Andrusiv, Oleksandr Martynenko and many others.

The project was created to mark the anniversary of the tragedy that occurred on 18 January 2023 in Brovary, near a nursery school, where the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Denys Monastyrsky, and his first deputy, Yevhen Yenin, were killed when the helicopter carrying the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine crashed.

A legal drama about human rights violations in Soviet Ukraine and modern Russia based on archival chronicles.

In some of his projects, Heimrad Backer used the text of Nazi propaganda in such a way that it became self-evident, commenting on itself. I use excerpts from a Soviet newspaper for the same purpose. The author calls parts of the film scenes to emphasize the theatricality, absurdity, and cruelty of the process and propaganda images.