In the center of the film is the poet, playwright, actor Yuri Yurchenko, who has dual citizenship of France and Russia. A prosperous Parisian, a successful creative person, at the call of his conscience, he arrived in the Donbass in 2014 and signed up for the militia. Having been captured, crippled, constantly on the verge of death, he survived, showed strength of mind. Exchanged later for soldiers, he continued his mission.