June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.
Two brothers in Donbas, younger Kolya and older Kostya, have a different view of what is going on and what each of them should do next. The tension between them is escalating, even more so because the conflict about the war is not the only one dividing them. ‘
