A young man, Max returns from the war. His psychologist and friends try to help him smoothly socialize and return to normal (ordinary) life, but the young veteran has a hard time with this (because of panic attacks).

In addition to all his problems, Max gradually loses his eyesight.He becomes emotionally attached to a 12-year-old neighbor girl, Lisa and wants to help her cope with her difficult life circumstances.

Eventually, having lost his sight completely, Max has to go through a difficult journey in search of a new meaning in life.

A pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, living in a picturesque river canyon in western Ukraine, is seeing their peaceful way of life gradually eroded. This closed religious community, located on the banks of the Dniester River, lives by its own strict rules, cut off from the outside world. For example, they do not use electricity or modern medicine, they do not marry outside the community, they do not join the army, and they do not take up arms.

The community's attempts to distance themselves from the outside world are often disrupted by the annual floods that take everything in their path and change the landscape of the rural shores.  

As an even more devastating “flood” approaches Ukraine, the war with Russia leaves the community with no choice but to unite and ignore their beliefs, and the villagers gradually begin to go against their own rules, joining with the outside world to help in the fight against the enemy.