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Asya and Gennady’s happy family is shattered overnight when their five-year-old son, Antoshka, dies in a devastating fire. The tragedy robs Asya of any sense of purpose. A deep depression leads to divorce and a self-destructive spiral. Asya wants to take her own life. But a year after her son’s death, hope suddenly appears. She meets a firefighter, Nikolai, who tells her that no remains of her son were found in the ashes. Asya clings desperately to this fragile hope—she wants to believe Antoshka is alive. But if so, where is her boy? No one but Asya believes it. Only Nikolai reaches out to help the despairing woman.
Sasha has a house in Blahodatne village and a loving textbook wife. The second baby is on the way. They are paying out the loan for a big fridge and they dream to save some money for a gas boiler. In the distant future they plan to buy a low cost car and travel to Crimea. To bring those modest dreams to life Sasha had to develop a sophisticated illegal fraud scheme. Accidentally, Sasha’s scheme is revealed. Looks like travel to Crimea is going to be postponed.
Karlsruhe, Germany, 1962. KGB agent Bogdan Stashynskii is trialed for the assasination of Ukrainian revolutionary and head of the now disbanded Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Stepan Bandera. However, Slava Stetsko and her spouse Yaroslav decide to take action and turn the trial into not just a memorial for Bandera, but a thorough critique of the USSR's web of political assasinations and the political indifference to the situation in the West.
