Serhii Korniienko

A provincial girl from Haisyn arrives in Kyiv. The capital of Ukraine becomes a transit point for the young girl on her way to her goal - the USA, where she was issued a "green card". Only 20 hours of waiting for a plane separate her from her dream. But at the train station she meets two young men who draw her into a series of adventurous and romantic adventures...

For five years, Irina patiently waited for her beloved Kostya to divorce his wife and propose to her. Finally, the long-awaited day arrived: Konstantin invited Irina to a restaurant and solemnly announced that he had bought engagement rings. However, the second ring was not for her, but for his boss's daughter. Irina was devastated. Unable to accept her beloved's betrayal, she decided to take her own life. At the entrance to the pharmacy, where the poor woman had gone to buy a lethal dose of sleeping pills, she encountered an abandoned dog. Upon learning that the poor animal was being taken to the slaughterhouse, Irina was overcome with compassion and decided to take it in.

There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.

Ukraine, 1920s. A gang of enemies of the Soviet government is rampaging in the village. Returning home, wounded 15-year-old Red Army soldier Fedya Panko decides to neutralize the enemy, who, as it turns out, operates not only on the battlefield.