Twelve-year-old Kir anxiously awaits his father’s return from the front lines in Ukraine. His fear and longing
are so intense that they take a physical toll: he begins to stutter and develops gastritis. As the pain intensifies, Kir’s mother, Olha, takes him to a sanatorium in the Carpathian Mountains for treatment, but shields him from
a difficult truth: his father has gone missing in action.
The old-fashioned health resort becomes a temporary refuge from reality, and its residents turn out to offer a better cure than its unconventional treatments. While Olha tries to cope with the uncertainty of her husband’s fate by joining a support group for soldiers’ wives, Kir falls in love for the first time, with fourteen-year-old cellist Eva, and befriends Mark, a charismatic masseur who becomes a father figure to him. But these new friendships can only soothe the symptoms, not cure the cause of his pain. At night, when the screams of war veteran Valery echo through the hallways, Kir begins to wonder whether his father will ever come back.

Directed by Mykola Zasieiev
Written by Mykola Zasieiev and Illia Volynets-Trifonov
Produced by Natalia Libet, Victor Ede, Rinskje Raap, Matīss Kaža, Nikola Ozola