Vadіm Mochalov

Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv, Lyonya, asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he's secretly in love, to help with the script editing.

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, film director and bachelor's graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.

Nikita is a student from the Kharkiv region who lives in Kyiv with his boyfriend Serhiy. His relationship with his religious mother is hideous due to her adverse treatment of his son’s sexuality, which has led him to abandon his faith in God. Nikita quarrels with her on his birthday because she sent him his cross pendant and asked the son to return to “the right path”. The next day, on February 24th of 2022, the couple wakes up from explosions and news about the beginning of a full-scale war with russia. Nikita realizes he can’t reach his mother by phone anymore.

The filming of a feature film by Kyiv student director Vadim is disrupted by the outbreak of full-scale war. After the first months of the invasion, the young man has the opportunity to shoot again: a documentary about the residents of the village of Lukashivka, who lost their homes during the Russian occupation of the Chernihiv region.