Tetiana Yavorska

Alena falls mysteriously ill after Mira breaks off their secret relationship.

Hannah expected it to feel different hosting a fugitive in her home. Gratitude, connection, friendship...but no. She takes great efforts to offer Yulia a warm, open-hearted retreat, but for weeks the two women remain strangers to each other. Hannah wants to change that. But for that to be possible, she has to understand that she cannot force affection and trust and that true mercy is not linked to expectations.

A daughter, who had been living abroad for a long time, returns home after a call from her mother about her father's death. Conflict erupts between them when the daughter blames her mother for her father's death, and the mother accuses the daughter of not returning in time. Eventually, seeing her mother in deep emotional crisis, the daughter agrees to a Christian funeral to ease her suffering.

Thirty-five-year-old Kateryna works in a catering shop for offices, but she doesn't like her job. She has a rude, violent temper. The protagonist has not been able to get pregnant by her husband for ten years. Kateryna wants to undergo IVF for the third time and has almost saved up the necessary amount of money for this procedure. But at this time, Katya's former lover, the priest, returns to the village and has his own secrets.

Chernivtsi, 1905. Sofia is a writer, so she helps Adam draft a proposal for Khristina. A private conversation between the two women reveals their unexpected emotional closeness, and now Sofia must choose between her own truth and societal expectations.