The film is presented as a conversation with local residents against the backdrop of a historical event that recently occurred in their lives: the transfer of the entire territory of Crimea from Ukraine to Russia. A group of people in the film are more concerned with the issues of the present and recent changes. But for the Crimean Tatars, the tragic events of their deportation that occurred more than 70 years ago are still so much a part of their present that thinking about them and reliving them again is more important than the change in the country they live in. The tragedy of a people deprived for years of the right to live in their homeland and the drama of another people given away by one state to another during the Soviet Union have become a subject for reflection on hope and submission, on the language and culture of the people, on life and death.
