Honeymoon

February 23, 2022, suburbs of Kyiv. Taras and Olja have just entered a new chapter in their lives—their first night in a new apartment was supposed to be the beginning of their life together. However, they are awakened in the morning by an explosion. The Russian army occupies the city, their house is turned into a base for the occupiers, and the apartment that was supposed to be a refuge becomes a trap without electricity, water, or signal. Five days cut off from the world transform their relationship and their very perception of life. Under the pressure of war, the facade of customs and certainties crumbles — only the most essential remains: fear, tenderness, helplessness, physicality, silence, and questions that cannot be avoided. In the ruins of civilization, in the face of death, Taras and Olja discover the dark and fragile depth of true intimacy. Inspired by a true story from Kiev, the film arose from the director's personal need to understand a reality that he himself narrowly missed. Interviews with people who survived the occupation became the basis for the script and an attempt to approach their experience through art. The film is not only a testimony about war, but also about a generation that is searching for new moral and human coordinates in its shadow. Through an intimate and minimalist story, the filmmakers want to transcend the stereotypes of war reporting and bring Western audiences closer to what war means in everyday life. No heroic gestures, but survival in a closed apartment, in a space where war becomes an invisible but omnipresent adversary – and where love remains the truest thing we have.