Historically, war has been regarded as a man’s domain, making the presence of women on blood-soaked battlefields all the more heroic. Yet neither men nor women, nor humanity as a whole, have managed to make any previous war the last one. The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking forward, and there is no reason to stop its second hand.

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.