On March 1, 2022, Dmytro Bahnenko films the Russian tanks invading the streets of Kherson: the city is occupied. Among the Ukrainian resistance fighters, one man stands out: Father Serhiy, a military priest who began rebelling at the beginning of the conflict in 2014. He runs a community center that provides free medicine, a café, and a mobile hair salon. Because Kherson is cut off from the rest of Ukraine, medicines are no longer delivered, endangering many patients. Father Serhiy regularly crosses the front line to seek these treatments in free Ukraine, risking his life under Russian fire aimed at his car. It also celebrates the funerals of Ukrainian soldiers, despite the surveillance of the Russian army. But one day, Father Serhiy is kidnapped by Russian men...

Dmytro Bahnenko is a journalist in Kherson. He spent three months secretly filming his city under Russian occupation. Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under occupation, as food and medicine become limited, people flee and others begin to disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lydia struggle to protect their daughter Ksusha from war, and must make the hardest decision of their lives: stay or go?

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