A unique drama anthology series for our time, inspired by true events which happened in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the brutal war got underway, every second person left Kyiv. Yet every second person remained. These are their stories – variously moving, funny, sad, stark, unsettling, and uplifting....
For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old femal...
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943....
Hannah expected it to feel different hosting a fugitive in her home. Gratitude, connection, friendship...but no. She takes great efforts to offer Yulia a warm, open-hearted retreat, but for weeks the two women remain strangers to each other. Hannah wants to change that. But for that to be possible, she has to understand that she cannot force affection and trust and that true mercy is not linked to expectations....
When a girl on a medieval farm says she dances with the devil, her stepmother must find out the real reason before it's too late....