Anastasiya Gruba

At noon, in the shade of riverside trees — as if in the middle of life — you lose something. Yet love is as strong as the river. A man is going through abrupt changes in his life — both personal and caused by the war. He spends a day alone by the river, revisiting a forgotten hobby — fishing. A sense of love and acceptance fills him, but only for a brief moment — he must return to the war.

Simon (26) is a mummy’s boy who has finally decided to become independent and mature. He flees from his obsessive mother to a hermit life in a trailer. But his attempt to escape from one woman leads to an encounter with four others because such a phenomenon as women’s suicide season is coming.

Wartime Kyiv. A father helps his daughter to practice driving. They are the only relatives to each other and have a strong connection, but many disagreements in their opinions. The driving lesson ceases to be ordinary when the father is issued a summons at a checkpoint.