Lina Kostenko

In the austere world of the Neighbor, there is no more place for a little girl, who makes living things from the fallen leaves. He once gave in to their temptation and now his children are obsessed with forbidden fantasies from the forest. So he dares to kill the most beautiful things in this life.

The film marks the occasion of the 800-year anniversary of Chornobyl: an epitaph to the nuclear power station tragedy. Lina Kostenko, the Ukrainian poetess, joins former residents on their annual trip to the dead town.

A story about a girl during the war who could not have been a child, but she is hiding from bombs in a ruined house, who never got to know her culture and all the beauty of the world. Where her soul and body early takes away death in the war.