For a decade, the director and documentary filmmaker Yevhen Titarenko has been documenting the lives of the volunteers in the ‘Hospitaliers’ medical battalion.

In 2014, they made a choice that changed their lives forever. Artists, journalists, doctors, IT specialists, chaplains, opinion leaders — people from a variety of professions and with different views — volunteered to go to the front line to save others as part of the ‘Hospitaliers’ medical battalion.
More than ten years have passed. Some of them took up their kit once more following the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. They have changed, grown up and suffered losses, but they have remained true to what matters most — their convictions and Ukraine.

Each of the six episodes is devoted to a different protagonist. But all these stories are linked by the figure of the director himself, who not only filmed the events but also worked as a paramedic alongside the people he is telling us about.

This is not a story about war as a phenomenon. Nor is it an account of battles or everyday life on the front line. Above all, it is a story about people — those who lived through the war and went on to live, work, help others, volunteer and fight for the future of our country.