A cheerful crowd of children go caroling. Armed with Christmas lights and decorations, the children bravely make their way through ruins, rubble, and bombed streets as they enter houses on the verge of collapse to sing carols and receive some change or candy in return. A small number of fearful locals agree to open the otherwise firmly locked doors to them. This is Eastern Ukraine and they are the children of war. In an apocalyptic landscape which decomposes day by day, Nastya, Yarik, and their friends play on with fierce determination. Their clear voices and nostalgic songs resound among improvised cemeteries, abandoned places, or even on the now-empty battlefield. The children won’t accept defeat. This is the new resistance movement – a resistance of innocence, imagination, and children’s games. (Monica Stan)