Serhii Hornyi

Serhii, a young man who fills his days with volunteer work, loses contact with his mother living in occupied territory. When his mother finally decides to evacuate, he learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.

In a small Ukrainian village in the 1830s, a youthful Kateryna leaves her fioncee Myron for Ivan, a soldier in the Russian imperial army, who promises to make her his wife after returning from his draft in the Russo-Ottoman War. However, he never returns and Kateryna soon grows desperate.

The story of a teenager who has a difficult relationship with his mother. She is a simple and modest schoolteacher raising her son alone, but the principal of the same school offers to help her. However, the son cannot forgive his mother for her intimate relationships...