In 1919, during the bloody Bolshevik massacre of “whites” in the Crimea, Red Army soldier Ivan Yavorsky rescued a four-year-old girl stunned by the horrors of war. He suspects that the child is the daughter of a white general, so in order to save her life, he decides to hide her in his native village, in his family’s home. But when he gets home, he realizes that he has no village or family left now.

So two strangers – a warrior Ivan and a girl Maria, related by common grief, become a father and a daughter. Fleeing the war, they go to a distant island, where Ivan becomes a lighthouse keeper. The island will become not only their new home, but will give them a new life.

A film from the documentary series Songs of the Heart.

About the song "There is fog in the valley" (Borys Buievskyi - Vasyl Didenko, 1964).

Movie 16 from the movie Unknown Ukraine. Essays on our history.

Christianity of Kievan Rus. Baptism of Kiev by Prince Vladimir the Great.

Successful business lady, the head of a large company and the bride of the charming handsome Elijah. At 36, Marina lacks just one thing: the courage to admit to herself that all this does not make her happy. Marina's life is a festive screen, rich entourage, behind which the unhealed traumas of youth are safely hidden.

Everything changes in one day when Julia comes to work in Marina's office – a person from her past. Her appearance causes Marina to return to the city of her childhood and unravel her ancient wounds. Will she have the courage to look in the face of the old image? Forces to face another betrayal? Consider wisdom among the expensive tinsel a new, true feeling?