The story of three women who are undergoing a transformation of their lives due to the events caused by the Great War. Yaryna is looking for her fiancé, who is probably in Russian captivity, and volunteering for the East. Kateryna is adapting her family's routine after her military husband's leg amputation. Daria is building her life after losing her husband in the war.

In a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine, where burying the dead has been forbidden, the church of a young priest, Andriy, has been turned into a morgue for executed Ukrainian civilians. As the occupation tightens its grip, Andriy quietly begins to resist, secretly returning the bodies to their families at great personal risk.

Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and violently changes the course of their lives.