March 2022. Ukrainians are fleeing en masse from the Russian invasion.

Artist Bohdan Mucha returns to kyiv.

Ukrainian forces prepare for the siege of the capital.

Otel, Bohdan's artists' residence, has also entered into resistance.

Artists now make Molotov cocktails.

Among them, Maxime, a Russian artist, has decided to stay.

He is torn between what he sees in Ukraine and the reprimands of his fellow Russians, who see in Ukrainian actions only anti-Putin and anti-Russian propaganda.

His brother is part of the Russian contingents.

Maxime has no news of him but suspects his presence not far from there.

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"We're going to win and you can all go home soon!"

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There is also Sergiy, a Ukrainian member of the Foreign Legion, who crossed France to defend his native country.

“We will win and soon you will all be able to go home!” he assured the refugees.

Faced with the Russian forces occupying half of the city and the fighting approaching, Sergiy holds the front line in the heart of Irpin with his companions.

The danger is very close, 200 meters away.

Water and electricity problems are increasing.

The consumption of alcohol is prohibited.

In their bunker, Ukrainian resistance fighters witness the shelling of their city.

That day, in Irpin, eleven people were killed, including an American journalist.

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