Oleksandr Ivanov

Été 1941, veille de l’invasion de l’Ukraine soviétique par les nazis. Dans un shtetl un jeune homme revenu de la ville attise les querelles entre laïcs et religieux et remet en question un mariage prévu quelques jours plus tard. Ce seront les dernières 24 heures d'un village avant sa destruction lors de l'opération Barbarossa.

Zhenya Horobchik is a Kyiv photographer originally from Zhashkiv who is much loved by women. He is looking for a job, but accidentally finds a new love. Zhenya already has a wife and a son, and an ex-wife and a bunch of problems. He's torn between them and decides he'd rather be under a train than go on like this.

A photographer from the criminal forensics department, Arystarkh, dreams of building a career as a professional art photographer.

Misha and Sonia are left at home again without their parents, but this time with a nanny. Meanwhile, the bandits from the first film escape from the prison.