65-year-old Slavik fled from Mariupol after the Russians destroyed the city. His story is deeply connected with the director’s: Vlad, then a soldier in a volunteer battalion, met Slavik in 2015. Slavik showed his museum, which looks like a weird cellar, and since that time, Vlad’s camera has started to observe the character and create a picture of Mariupol between 2014 and 2022. The film’s reversed storyline brings Slavik back to his early years and Mariupol to the epoch before the disaster.