Nziff22 A House Made Of Splinters E

The film focuses on three children, Eva, Sasha and Kolya, and follows them through the nine months the children generally remain in the refuge. Although they are unrelated, their experience of traumatic familial situations, often triggered by the Russian/Ukraine conflict in the Donbas, draws connections between their splintered lives. War and the societal breakdown and turmoil it induces may be the backdrop, but the film instead captures the children’s incredible ability to discover or create magical moments despite harsh realities.