A thirty-year-old filmmaker sets out to find her late mother’s house in Ukraine. What begins as a personal journey into her family history is transformed by the war into a search for a place she can no longer reach: the house now lies in territory occupied by Russia. At the same time, she tries to find her mother’s best friend. But she too now lives in Russian-controlled territory, and the protagonist must decide how far she is willing and able to go to meet her. Her journey takes her through Germany, Ukraine and France. In France, she meets a former exchange student and discusses whether her mother would have thought of herself today as Ukrainian or Russian. Their conversations open up a space between memory, origins and the political present. The Russian language in particular becomes a contradictory symbol: for some, it is associated with violence, occupation and deep wounds; for others, it remains their mother tongue, a source of memory and culture. The film combines documentary observation with staged and essayistic moments. It explores family violence and the traces it leaves across generations, the absurdity of war, and the question of how to avoid passing violence on. At the same time, it follows a young woman trying to reclaim her own story, caught between loss, guilt, language and the desire not to be defined by either family or political borders. Completion is planned for mid-2027.