This portrait of Chechnya during the recent conflict tells a story of uncertainty and bleak despair via a series of lyrical images, which say more than a dozen talking bureaucrats could. The filmmakers take a particular interest in the country's youth. She visits an isolated military school in St. Petersburg, as well as Chechnya's fallen capital, and a refugee camp for children in the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia, which imply the cycle of growth, violence and death that awaits so many.