Vladyslav Volynets

An obsessed director, filming a modern adaptation of "Carmen," falls in love with the lead actress and gradually blurs the line between cinema and reality, turning the set into an arena of jealousy and self-destruction.

Fedir is a first-year student at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Today is his first day at uni. However, waking up in the middle of the forest, the guy discovers that yesterday, on Freshman's Day, something clearly didn't go according to plan.

Every year, at the beginning of summer, the Carpathians whisper again about Mavchyn Easter—the night when fairies, mermaids, forest spirits, and all those whom people try to keep in the shadows awaken. Everything that seemed like fiction turns out to be true. And while mortals live their lives, the world of evil spirits prepares for the main event of the year — a night that belongs only to them.

The story of Perelesnyk, a mythical creature who seduces girls and takes away their strength, and a young woman named Lada, who escapes from an unhappy marriage by starting an affair with him.