GanzaFilm Production

A young girl, cook Varia, loses her job because no one needs her haute cuisine in a roadside café. Sweet, energetic, witty – she runs as far away from home as possible in search of realization! But an unexpected discovery – a book by the forgotten legend of Ukrainian cuisine Olha Franko changes her life forever and inspires her to go local, instead of trendy!

A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: "To love Lviv, women, and jokes". To make their lives bright, they resort to various adventures, while remaining positive heroes. Unexpectedly, the batiars become guardians of a young beauty, and their adventures are gaining new momentum. The film's events take place in Lviv in 1938-1939.

Anya and her beloved Yurko come to visit the girl’s parents in the Ukrainian Carpathian village in the summer. At the Ivan Kupala celebration, a local heartthrob named Ivanka, nicknamed Morena, puts her eye on and charms him. Strange and mystical events begin to happen to lovers after meeting with Morena. A conflict breaks out between girls – their relationship turns into a desperate war that leaves blood in their wake. This feud will forever change them.

Rape has been used as a weapon of war in the conflicts that have ravaged the Great Lakes region in recent decades. Victims are courageously speaking out, some for the first time.