This is a coming of age story, about a generation of young Ukrainians whose lives have been defined by war. At the core of our story are the lives of three young men — Brodiaha, Krama, and Bars. For all of them, the battle for Mariupol began in 2014. It started in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the city, where they joined up to the Azov regiment, and it ended in the Azovstal steel plant in May 2022 — once one of the largest steel plants in the world, and by then a bombed-out shell.