A WORLD GONE

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Sashko is a 34-year-old documentary theater director and filmmaker. Since the onset of the russian troops’ invasion into Ukraine in 2022 he has been filming reports and films in the front-line territories. One day he finds out that his younger brother Serhii, only 22, has been at the very frontline in the Donetsk region for a year now. This comes as a surpise,  because Sashko was sure that his brother is a guest worker in Czechia. The boys hadn’t spoken for a long time. Despite coming from the same family, they had taken very different paths in life that never crossed.

Sashko calls Serhii, and this conversation becomes the beginning of a new acquaintance. They come up with the idea of making a documentary about themselves, which will help them get to know each other.  Sashko sends his brother an action camera to the front. Serhii shoots a lot. For him, the camera is an opportunity to tell others about his experience of war: combat missions, deaths of his comrades, injuries.

When Sashko watches the first footage, where Serhiy, under heavy artillery fire, takes the wounded to a safe area, he sees not a small, skinny boy who is bullied by his peers, but a brave warrior. He realizes that he does not know his brother at all.