Obsessed with the idea that only he could preserve the "true memory of Mariupol," Slavik gave up his business in the late 1990s and began tirelessly collecting artifacts and stories from the city — unaware that he was, in fact, gathering evidence of a world that would be destroyed by the Russian invasion.
65-year-old Slavik fled from Mariupol after the Russians destroyed the city. His story is deeply connected with the director’s: Vlad, then a soldier in a volunteer battalion, met Slavik in 2015. Slavik showed his museum, which looks like a weird cellar, and since that time, Vlad’s camera has started to observe the character and create a picture of Mariupol between 2014 and 2022. The film’s reversed storyline brings Slavik back to his early years and Mariupol to the epoch before the disaster.
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