Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is an expensive commodity that has to be trucked in. The Eastern border towards Russia is being fortified with a wall. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses.Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.