Inspired to study photography by the protest scenes she witnessed in Kyiv during the 2014 revolution, Julia has now set her sights on a future outside her beloved Ukraine. A year after the revolution began and as she awaits news from a prestigious photography school in Germany, Julia volunteers at the military hospital for injured soldiers coming directly from the front. Julia brings a carefree happiness to their ward, until the day she meets an Englishman who has arrived with easily mended surface wounds and deeply set emotional scaring.