Orest Ohorodnyk

After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.

An aspiring chef Varia learns the importance of staying true to her Ukrainian roots when she stumbles upon a legendary cookbook from 1929 — and its author's ghost, the legendary chef Olha Franko.

On the New Year's Eve, in a small cozy hotel in the Carpathians, fate, with the help of its owner Ivan, brings together people with completely different life paths. Defender Valera comes back from the battlefront to convince his wife not to divorce. Volunteer Tania, despite an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for drones, hurries to the customs office. Blogger Liza wants to return to her easy and carefree pre-war life. And MP Petrovych dreams of escaping abroad with a suitcase of money. Each of them has their own desires and views, but this New Year they will find themselves together to understand what they really want from the future.

The film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of 1959, when in Munich KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi killed Stepan Bandera.

In 1950, long after the world has finished fighting World War II, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting both Nazi and Soviet abuses, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances and his own sense of honor and duty to lead this effort as an underground war. As portrayed by the film, Shukhevych is a genteel family man who is also a complex character (revolted by ethnic discrimination, a music lover and a military genius) that with his charisma fuels his countrymen with desire for freedom. In the end, Shukhevych's efforts are unable to defeat the Soviets despite paying for his resistance with his life, but they re-enforce Ukrainian patriotism as an underground force until Ukraine finally recovers its freedom from Soviet tyranny.

On the New Year's Eve, in a small cozy hotel in the Carpathians, fate, with the help of its owner Ivan, brings together people with completely different life paths. Defender Valera comes back from the battlefront to convince his wife not to divorce. Volunteer Tania, despite an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for drones, hurries to the customs office. Blogger Liza wants to return to her easy and carefree pre-war life. And MP Petrovych dreams of escaping abroad with a suitcase of money. Each of them has their own desires and views, but this New Year they will find themselves together to understand what they really want from the future.