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While Tamara, the 40-year-old woman artist, who is going through an existential crisis, tries to discover whether she has got rabies from a dog, that bit her on the street, the other woman comes to her house - the young mistress of her husband. Insult and frustration throw Tamara to fight her inner demons and her own artistic rabies while her husband is lost between the two worlds of powerful women.
It is a story of a girl from a depressive seaside town, that drowned in the sea when she was six years old. But then she suddenly came to her senses and finds a new gift of herb reading, that will lead her to the criminal world, where she discovers herself as a predator. Based on a book by Oles Uljanenko.
Sofia left her hometown of Kramatorsk, went through a difficult process of adapting to a new place, and dreams of becoming an actress. Bozhena, fleeing the war, found refuge in Truskavets, where she became the voice of children who, like her, had lost their homes. Marko and Maria live in Kryvyi Rih under constant shelling, but they continue to fight: the boy is learning to accept his history through creativity, and the girl is actively involved in community activities and building her future in Ukraine. Anna from Kharkiv dreams of becoming an architect and rebuilding her hometown. Veronika, who survived the occupation of Chernihiv, is healing through equestrian sports, and Valeria, whose parents took her to Germany, is still looking for an answer — whether to return or build a future abroad.
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