AFTER US, ONLY THE BURNT EARTH

In April 1986, humanity suffers one of the greatest environmental disasters of all time: a nuclear explosion of unparalleled magnitude. Exclusion zones are set up to accommodate the disaster survivors. The village of Dytiatky and its inhabitants refuse to integrate into an exclusion zone and continue to live on their land, with their traditions and histories. There are premature deaths among those displaced and a saving continuity for the Samossiols – those who “resist/ return.” After 25 years, what does this community think about its journey? And what do their grandchildren think? What reasons motivated the disaster victims to flee or to stay? It is in the village of Dytiatky, bordering the “Zone,” with those who “return” and their people that we must seek the answer...