Alina, recovering from a recent surgery, is living in Irpin when Russia invades Ukraine in early 2022.

On 5 March, amid the Battle of Irpin, she manages to escape to a nearby village with her parents, Anatoliy and Tatiana.

[1] Regarding the film, Maksimenko stated: The axis of the film are my video notes from the first days of the war, documented in the form of a kind of diary, in which I tried to record my own thoughts and emotions.

To understand what was really happening, what this war was, which I and the people around me had known so far only from books, films and stories, and which suddenly became our terrible reality.

[2]The film premiered at Visions du Réel on 14 April 2024.