Plot Summary:For five teenagers living in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine, a Himalayan expedition provides a brief escape from reality. A portrait of a generation that, in spite of everything, is able to recognize and celebrate the fragile beauty of life.
Aged 73, Valentyn, Ukraine's greatest alpinist and adventurer, feels his strengths declining. It's time to prepare his last expedition. Willing to leave a legacy like no others, he goes to the war-torn industrial wild wild east of Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, to find five young apprentices, teenagers living on the frontline. Destination: the Himalayas.