Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Maryna Koshkina, Danyil Kamenskyi, Oleksiy Horbunov, Vasyl Kukharskyi, Serhii Smeian, Lyublyana Fenchak
Crew: Volodymyr Romanov (Production Design), Daria Onyshchenko (Writer), Claudia Lehmann (Writer), Daria Onyshchenko (Director)
Country: Switzerland, Ukraine
Language: Pусский, Український
Studio: Directory Films, Jovera Pictures AG/SA, Lehmann Sisters
Runtime: 105 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 09, 2019
IMDb: 4.1
Keywords:donbass war, russian invasion of ukraine
