Daria Holosko

November, 2022. A mother from Mariupol that has not seen her son since the beginning of the war, has only a week to spend with him in a rocket-shelled Kyiv before migrating to Canada.

A chance encounter with a woman creating a seashell mosaic on the facade of a pharmacy in the coastal town of Ureki turned into a profound journey to the place of the artist’s strength and vulnerability.

Agatha visits the train station to meet her husband returning from the front, but the only person she finds there is an injured soldier with no one to greet him. He has just two hours before his return train and a goal he cannot achieve without the help of a random stranger.

"By the way, there's a Ukrainian family living in Kormagali," my friend Geo told me, which sparked my desire to make a film about them. But searching for this family raised more questions than answers. The main one was: Where is the Ukrainians house?