In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin s secret police. Intrigued by Olena s story, Daryna sets out to make a documentary of the woman s extraordinary life and death and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. Spanning sixty tumultuous years of contemporary Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center are three disparate women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past secrets that refuse to stay hidden."