The documentary in the format of a film chronicle reproduces the evacuation route from the bombed-out town of Pivnichne, on the border line of the "gray zone", through cities of Toretsk, Myrnograd, and Pokrovsk to the city of Dnipro, the temporary (and historical) center of cultural life of the industrial East. Gradually moving away from the front line, we observe how the life modus and the mood of the cities change.