Through its two parallel plotlines, the film follows the exploits of a volunteer evacuation team in the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, led by young, precociously stoic Anton, as well as the wartime daily lives and unlikely friendship of two elderly women – pragmatic Zinaida and dreamy, starry-eyed Taisia – who decided to stay at their homes in the now de-occupied Chernihiv region. While Anton faces the most visceral horrors of war on a daily basis during his team’s urgent, desperate attempts to rescue the most vulnerable, who are often reluctant or unwilling to leave, Zinaida and Taisia seek to pursue any forms of resistance within their power – from praying and writing poetry to hiding historic plaque and reporting intelligence to the Ukrainian military… 

 A piece of cinéma verité, the film explores the complex dynamics of rescuing and preserving in the most trying of times – not only lives and physical land but faith, hope, memory, culture, and one’s own humanity. As the plotlines ultimately interweave into a double helix, the line between the extraordinary self-sacrifices and at first glance futile, naïve, inconsiderable acts of resistance is blurred, inviting us to notice the indivisibly unified effort by the visible and invisible heroes in the making.

According to a play by Anna Jablonska.

A journalist from Kiev arrives in a provincial town. She is staying at the hotel, but cannot leave the room. He then notices the guest in the room…

The diploma work of the director.

Based on the stories of Sergei Dovlatov.

The story of a friendship between two young guys: one serving in the army, the other a prisoner. About responsibility for their actions, for their human dignity.

Based on Alexei Kazantsev's play "Brothers and Lisa".

The girl Lisa finds herself in a strange house, where two brothers live on different sides of time: the older one cannot forget his dead parents, and the younger one, having no purpose, lives only in the present. Lisa takes a decisive step for a common future.