In the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolaev, people came out to celebrate an important state holiday. Side by side – old and new symbols, the possibility or lack of understanding between people who, although living on neighboring streets, are becoming further and further apart. May 9, 2017, Victory Day. Discussions, fighting pro-Ukrainian and pro-Soviet, red poppies and St. George's ribbons ...

The flagship of the Russian imperial and then Soviet shipbuilding, a city that was quite pro-Russian in the USSR, suddenly manifested its Ukrainian essence. Jumping from extremes to extremes, she is looking for her place on the modern map of Ukraine. For some, war is a myth and part of history, for others it is a new reality.

Weekend is a portrait of the city and the people who live in it. This is a movie about the search for identity against the backdrop of a new reality. Is it possible to continue living, stuck with one foot in the Soviet past and the other stepping into Europe?

About the life and work of the cult Ukrainian writer Oles Ulyanenko (1962-2010).

The film was made by: Serhiy Zhadan, Andriy Kurkov, Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, Mikhail Slaboshpitsky, Volodymyr Tykhiy, Irina Vannikova, Mikhail Brynykh, Andriy Kokotyukha, Larisa Denysenko, Oleksandr Krasovytsky, Grigory Serhiyuzin, and others and acquaintances of Ulyanenko.

Numerous chronic archival footage from Ulyanenko, which was collected almost 10 years after Ulyanenko's death, was used.