The film focuses on a man who refused to leave his village in the Zaporizhzhia region when it became engulfed in war—both in 2014 and in 2022. The elderly man tends to his relatives' graves, plants potatoes in a large garden, and finds water wherever he can. He has long since grown accustomed to living under shelling and without electricity, taking a philosophical view of it all—reasoning that humanity lived without electric light for millennia...
Fighters from BARS—a Cossack combat unit—help him extinguish the fires that constantly break out due to the shelling. He carries nothing but the Gospel. His wise reflections on the meaning of life and eternity, and his prayers for peace, are extraordinary because they are born of deep suffering.
A person who holds peace within his soul can create an island of peace around himself amidst the hellish flames of war.
