15-year-old Lisa finds an old video camera and begins filming an ordinary, sobering winter morning in the apartment of her friend Maxim, who is clearly in love with her.

the film frames four symbols near the Bessarabsky Market in Kyiv.

On a final walk with her terminally ill mother, the filmmaker sees a blossoming tree and says she would like to become it. Her mother asks only: “When?”

55-year-old Yuriy is a driver for the "On the shield" mission, which retrieves the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield. This time, together with his colleague, he is heading to Pokrovsk to pick up the body of a 25-year-old man, someone just like his missing son, who is also a soldier.

Sasha is overwhelmed by problems and melancholy. Inspired by memories of the past, she tries to escape everything, returning from Manchester to Kyiv to visit her mother and try to mend a long-lost relationship. However, things don’t unfold as she had hoped from the moment she steps through the door.