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The story takes place in the year of 2022, which is also called The Year of the Tiger in Eastern calendars. When the full-scale invasion breaks out, the main character Oleksandr decides to stay in his hometown Kharkiv, in the Northern Saltivka area of the city. Now all of his surroundings consist of just his pets and the six neighbors. During one of the shellings a missile hits Oleksandr's apartment, and all he is left with now is his camera, which he uses to tell us his story.

The three Cheremiskyi brothers live in the mountains where they don't dream of owning an iPhone7, because to earn half of its price, they have to go to bed at midnight and get up at 3 a.m. all summer long, milk a hundred sheep, make cheese, wash cauldrons... This is the usual daily routine of 9-year-old Sashko Cheremiskyi, who earned as much as 3,000 hryvnias from his "old stall" this summer. But with this money he did not buy a bike or a tablet, but paid shepherds to graze his four sheep, bought a backpack and notebooks for September 1, and donated the rest... to repair the school. His brother Yurko, at 10 years old, bakes bread, cooks borscht and braids his younger sister's hair. The eldest, 12-year-old Vasya, dreams of becoming a reporter or cameraman, but first he wants to see the big city. The three boys don't go to school because they have to chop wood for the winter. Otherwise, their large family will freeze to death...

The film is about how the occupation has changed and sometimes broken the lives of people living on the peninsula. Hromadske journalist Natalia Humeniuk arrived in Crimea on the day of the so-called ‘referendum’ on 16 March 2014, where she talked to people in Bakhchisarai, Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol. Since then, the journalist has returned to the peninsula at least once a year: she talked about the first political prisoners, the beginning of repressions against Crimean Tatars, the economic conditions and everyday life of the residents of the occupied Crimea, and what it was like to be a Ukrainian in the occupied Crimea or even an activist of the ‘Crimea is ours’ movement who began to criticise the occupation administration. After 5 years, Hromadske journalists returned to the people whose stories were told in the first months of the annexation.

The film tells the story of two people: a rural boy who was a projectionist, showed films in village clubs, played the accordion masterfully, and was the life of the party; and a criminal who spent 20 years in prison for murder and robbery and is to die in prison. They both contracted tuberculosis 60 years apart, while in prison.

This is the story of one homeless man’s transformation after undergoing a nine-month rehabilitation program in a Christian rehab center, after which he tried to start his life over. Misha is 42 years old. He has no passport, a leg injury and sits on a step, begging for handouts with a paper cup. Now he is at rehab center. The rehab center is very much part of the monastery. Following of a strict routine, which revolves around discipline, community, communication and discussion, labour, animals and farming, construction, prayers and hymns, Bible study, as well questions and thoughts about death and happiness. This is what rehabilitation looks like. But will Misha become a new person after rehab?

On November 3, 1996, «the richest man in Ukraine», Yevhen Shcherban, was killed in Donetsk. At the time of the murder, his fortune was estimated at about $ 500 million. Scherban's companies were engaged in the production and sale of metal, gas, oil products, construction and financial transactions. The elder son of the murdered businessman Yevhen Shcherban Jr. has been conducting his own investigation since 2013 and is trying to find out where his father's inheritance has disappeared.