Inga Pylypchuk

Anya and Seryozha, eighteen and nineteen years old, have been close friends since school. They live in Mariupol, an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine. The film shows snapshots from the life of young people searching for who they want to be and how they want to live. They move between autonomy and uncertainty, rebellion and melancholy. They are full of imagination and willpower.

In Ukraine, they are called the ‘three musketeers’: together, journalists Svitlana Zalishchuk, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayyem are fighting for democracy on the Maidan. When the revolution comes to a head, and President Yanukovych absconds, his magnificent estate is left behind. Mustafa, Svitlana and Serhiy go inside – and see the extent of the corruption and greed in its rooms. Now they want to go one step further and completely change politics. They run for parliament themselves in 2014 – and win. But the 2019 election changes everything. While Serhiy supports the candidate Selenskyj, Mustafa and Svitlana take a different path. Serhiy must now fight for himself alone.

When Ukrainian feminist and activist Diana Berg enters my life, my horizons expand. Through our polyamorous relationship, I rediscover Ukraine after many years in Germany. If polyamory exists, is "polyhomery" also possible?

Inga has been living in Berlin for 13 years, now her mother is coming to her, fleeing Russia's war in Ukraine. About everyday life in a war that is far and near at the same time, between buying fish, learning German, dreaming of Putin's death and waking up.

What is it like to grow up in times of war? In a documentary film they developed themselves, nine young Ukrainian women offer a unique insight into their lives—into everyday life in a state of emergency. In the documentary, nine Ukrainian teenagers tell their stories. Some of the young women have fled to other countries, while others remain in Ukraine, but all of them become co-authors of their own lives: How much is left for oneself when fear for family and fellow human beings, when death, separation, and trauma are omnipresent?