1971, Odessa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine’s 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party’s view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, which consequently realizes she must protect the director’s vision and the safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet occupation.
Film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion.
En los meses previos al conflicto ucraniano, las activistas feministas de FEMEN, centraron el foco de atención mundial sobre un país con grandes restricciones, inmerso en la corrupción y atenazado por un patriarcado post-soviético. Esta es la verdadera historia de Femen, el grupo feminista "topless" de Ucrania que se ha convertido en una sensación mediática.