A documentary featuring testimonies from people who remember the 1933 famine in Ukraine.

The Holodomor was a mass-scale, man-made famine organised in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932–1933 by the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the government of the USSR. Ukraine was the hardest hit, with millions of people dying of starvation. This famine has been recognised as genocide against the Ukrainian people. According to demographic estimates, the total number of victims of the Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR is 3–7 million people. According to estimates by the M. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine’s demographic losses as a result of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 amount to approximately 4.5 million people, including 3.9 million due to excess mortality and a further 600,000 due to a birth deficit.

Based on the short story of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez.

The story is set in a town called Z. One morning, he confesses to Zhenya that he has stolen the billiard balls. Now the town is left without any entertainment. The protagonist grapples with a moral dilemma: should he return the stolen goods or get rid of them? How can he clear his conscience in the eyes of his beloved wife? How can he justify his actions in the eyes of the aloof and somewhat strange townspeople, who have no idea who did it? How can he find understanding and escape the daily grind? He seeks the answer in love, betrayal and drink. But this only makes matters worse.