Vadym Kurylko

Région du Donbass, Ukraine, 2014. Mykola, un professeur de physique, renonce à son mode de vie paisible suite à la perte de sa femme enceinte, tuée par des soldats à l’aube de l’invasion russe. Souhaitant se venger, il réussit à intégrer les forces armées ukrainiennes et obtient le poste convoité de sniper. Sa cible devient alors un sniper d’élite russe dont l’élimination pourrait changer le cours du conflit.

The Hitlerian army has merely encroached upon the territory of Ukraine, and the majority of the local people have been already ready to cave in to a new regime. The Ukrainian policemen have killed the boy. It is clear that there is no hope to expect the justice from the invaders, that’s why the killed boy’s mother declares the war on the hangsman.

Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters. The NKVD surrounds the insurgents. The captain of the commissariat squad gives Orest a choice: he either gives Eva out or accepts an unequal fight.