In Front of the Camera

Nikita is a student from the Kharkiv region who lives in Kyiv with his boyfriend Serhiy. His relationship with his religious mother is hideous due to her adverse treatment of his son’s sexuality, which has led him to abandon his faith in God. Nikita quarrels with her on his birthday because she sent him his cross pendant and asked the son to return to “the right path”. The next day, on February 24th of 2022, the couple wakes up from explosions and news about the beginning of a full-scale war with russia. Nikita realizes he can’t reach his mother by phone anymore.

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, film director and bachelor's graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.

Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv, Lyonya, asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he's secretly in love, to help with the script editing.