A young psychologist, Artem, is in trouble. His loved one is addicted to drugs. Amphetamine psychosis develops. She becomes dangerous — she walks around with a weapon and aims at people.

Artem starts looking for a way to save her. While still a student, he worked for three years in rehabilitation centers for alcohol and drug addicts. This work traumatized him — all the institutions are closed, and people are held there by force.

To find out what closed centers are and what methods are used there, the Suspilne journalists go to different cities of Ukraine and interview dozens of former rehabilitation patients. The investigators expose large networks of centers where people are beaten, tied up with duct tape and forced to pray. The Suspilne team reveals cases when rehabilitates did not return from the centers alive.

In the course of their investigation, the journalists also revealed that even a person without addiction can be placed in such an institution for money. The system operates in the shadows, and the principles of such rehabilitation are supported by politicians. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself has become a supporter of the IAA network. Moreover, Ukrainian politicians are now trying to legitimize the funding of private centers from the state budget.

A distance of 769 kilometres is what separates a bakery in Kyiv from New York, an occupied town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is where bread baked by people with mental disabilities ends up. Although they struggle with their own difficulties, their work saves locals in frontline territories, in war-torn areas cut off from supplies. The bakery is a refuge where workers can become part of a larger community, which empowers them. In wartime, there is no room for labels or social divisions – only actions matter.

FESTIVALS:
World premiere: 65th Krakow Film Festival (2025, International Short Competition, Poland)
Scandinavian premiere: 50th Odense Film Festival (2025, International Documentary Short Competition, Denmark)
National premiere: 54th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (2025, National Short Competition, Ukraine)
American premiere: Ukrainian Culture Festival by Razom For Ukraine (2025, New York, USA)

Awards/Special Mention:
10th Ukraina Film Festival (2025, Special Mention from jury, Poland) 
7th MICT Franco-Ukrainian Festival of Young Cinema (2025, Best Documentary Short, France-Ukaine)

Other festival screenings:
22nd Sedicicorto International Film Festival (2025, MYDOC section, Italy)
22nd European Film Festival Integration You and Me (2025, International Competition, Poland)
19th Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2025, Special Program, Georgia)

The seventh episode of the series The Guardians of Vice.

The film opens with a murder – a horrific murder, shown in all its gruesome detail. And then some utterly unbelievable events unfold. It is only at the very end that it becomes clear why the period of retribution has been so prolonged...

The film is dedicated to the events of the November Order when, on the night of November 1, 1918, Ukrainian troops raised a rebellion in Lviv from the ranks of the Volunteer Legion of Sich Riflemen and proclaimed the creation of an independent state on Ukrainian ethnic lands. Sich archers became the driving force of the young Ukrainian state and the germ of its regular army.

The storyline is based on eyewitness recollections.

Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi's Crimean Stories, In the Shiites, On the Stone and Under the Minarets.

The heroines of the three stories are ready to face such a high sense of love, but the reality is beyond their dreams. One of the heroines resigned herself to her talent by marrying a lover. It gives birth to children, finding comfort in them. However, in dreams he rushes with those who are sweetheart, in the mountains and kisses to exhaustion. Shaitan still does not want to weaken the bond ... The second - he boldly goes against the customs and dies in the waves of such a native and at the same time harsh sea, which combined with his beloved forever ... in death. The third does not want to sit in a "golden cage", waiting until they sell a flock of sheep as her friend. At the same time, fearing the parents, he does not support the elect who decided to fight the remnants.