Olha Larina

If you are young and beautiful, if you draw men affection and women jealousy, if you are being courted by two most handsome guys in your college, it is easy to accept an illusion that this world was created just for you. But sooner or later you'd need to make a choice. What is more important - flamboyant gestures or quiet devotion? Strength or care? insistence or ability to forgive?

Old Yushka is an object of contempt for all the villagers, who can't cope with his kindheartedness. Yushka never complains. He keeps his own secret garden alive. Every summer he leaves town, but nobody knows where he goes.

Avril 1986. Pripyat, en Ukraine. Une fusion du coeur du réacteur 4 a eu lieu à la centrale de Tchernobyl. Plus de trente personnes sont mortes au cours de l’explosion, mais le nombre de morts estimé à la suite de retombées radioactives vont atteindre un nombre à quatre chiffres. Cet accident sera considéré comme le plus grand désastre écologique de la planète.