影片讲述了乌克兰男孩和女孩之间的脆弱的爱情故事。痴迷于音乐无法自拔的音乐人安东，在经过治疗后重返乌克兰。普通女孩卡蒂亚是一名努力找寻自己生活方式的音乐家，尽管她正在计划着与男友搬去柏林生活。他们在最关键的时刻相遇了。两个迷茫的年轻人，努力的在社会中寻找自己的位置。一起经历了几天的幸福时光。

影片讲述了乌克兰男孩和女孩之间的脆弱的爱情故事。痴迷于音乐无法自拔的音乐人安东，在经过治疗后重返乌克兰。普通女孩卡蒂亚是一名努力找寻自己生活方式的音乐家，尽管她正在计划着与男友搬去柏林生活。他们在最关键的时刻相遇了。两个迷茫的年轻人，努力的在社会中寻找自己的位置。一起经历了几天的幸福时光。

One has to be brave enough to accept loosing old self for the sake of growing up. Kira becomes adult briskly, watching her family and soviet childhood smashing into pieces. So does Ukraine in the early 90th, launching painful process of transformation into an independent country.

Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.

这是一部以斯大林格勒保卫战为题材的故事片。该片获1946年戛纳国际电影节特别大奖，获1946年苏联国家奖金。它的特点是战斗场面很少，绝大部分戏是在指挥部的狭小房间内展开的，主人公是红军高级司令员，因此有关辩论说，这部影片创造一种“新的心理影片”类型。

2025年，戰爭結束的一年後，烏克蘭軍人塞吉回到現實生活。創傷後的日子並不容易，工廠主管嫌棄、同袍輕生、關廠失業，連家裡的熨斗都不管用，只能在野外猛射人形靶發洩。失業的他因緣際會加入挖尋軍人遺體的「黑色鬱金香」計畫，認識了志工卡蒂亞，在荒蕪廢地挖掘的同時，也像掏挖著滿是創傷的自己，打開被戰爭所侵蝕的腐肉，希冀能長出生存的勇氣。