Synopsis

They were planting cabbage in the vegetable garden when the war in Donetsk began... Mother Superior Michaela and Julia suddenly find themselves in the heart of the fighting... in an orthodox monastery. These women live through their eye-witness experience of the fate of this holy place, although they could in effect leave at any given time. The main heroines tell of their lives under fire in the war zone, and their personal struggle withfear and internal conflict .. It turns out that war can be the most profound, intense and thought - provoking time in a person's life.