新年将至，文化宫正在筹备一场盛大的跨年晚宴。奥古尔（伊戈尔·伊林斯基 Igor Ilyinsky 饰）是文化宫新上任的主任，这个严肃的男人决定将晚宴上要表演的所有节目都重新审核一遍，并且在跨年当天发表一份长达40分钟的学术演讲。　　晚宴上的一切都让奥古尔感到非常的不爽——女演员们的裙子太短、乐队演奏的歌曲太过于花哨和肤浅、参会者竟然想带起花里胡哨的狂欢节面具来遮掩他们的容貌。奥古尔雷厉风行的对整改晚会节目下达了指令，年轻人们当然不会就这样受人摆布，他们决定见招拆招，和奥古尔暗中较劲。

　　Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.