In 2014, after Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, the country authorities began a genocide against the peninsula’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars. Many men were arrested and convicted in trumped-up terrorism cases. Women whose husbands and sons were imprisoned fight for justice, and their children have to become adults ahead of time. Grief unites the entire nation, but every year the authorities arrest more and more Crimean Tatars.

Andrey and Mikhail got their first glimpse of modern dance in the 1990’s in the Russian city of Ufa. Both men dedicated their lives to this artform. Both speak the language of dance, expressing the essential themes of love and tragedy. Together, we will experience the story of a performance that they are preparing together.

A young woman, Alfinaz, mother of two minor children, is going on a long journey to meet her husband. He is a life-term prisoner, and his wife is an exemplary Muslim woman who faithfully waits and hopes for her husband's release. A story about female strength and humility, about humility before the trials that have fallen and gratitude to the Almighty.

Firuza, a 10-year-old girl, writes an essay in Russian on the topic “Motherland”, she turns to her grandmother Mushkinaz for help, who tells her about her difficult fate, about her childhood in Georgia and life in Kazakhstan after the repressions of the Meskhetian Turks in 1944.

Back in 1941, leaving for the front, the men of a small rural theater asked their girlfriends to keep it. And 7 actresses made a vow to play every day, promising that their front line would be the stage.