Bohdan is turning 18 today and his dad gives him his old Lada car as a birthday present. His buddies from the trade school come visit him in the garage to check out the car. But a simple birthday takes an unexpected turn that forces Bohdan to stand his ground.
Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this remale of Claude Lelouch's "C'était un rendez-vous" captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.
Marina is writing her doctoral dissertation on the phenomenon of mono-industrial cities — settlements built to serve the needs of a single, large enterprise. But the cold-blooded researcher doesn’t even suspect that she herself could be easily swallowed up by the very subject of her study.
