“I made my film by trying to bring into a dialogue two new major trends in Ukrainian society, namely the new class of entrepreneurs and the large number of volunteers who, in the period between the revolution (2014) and Russian aggression (2022), brought enormous support to the people in need in the Donbas. If they had one thing in common, it was their determination to live by refusing to compromise.
I forced myself to stick to their stories and be open to whatever I could not foresee. In other words: I let myself be driven by events because I saw that behind them was the struggle of a country in search of its identity.”
Sieva Diamantakos