러시아의 침공이 시작되자 포위된 도시 마리우폴에 갇힌 우크라이나 저널리스트 팀은 전쟁의 잔혹한 상황을 기록하기 위해 고군분투한다.

2022년, 리투아니아의 감독 만타스 크베다라비시우스는 포화가 계속되는 우크라이나 마리우폴에 돌아간다. 2015년 <마리우폴리스>에 등장한 사람들을 만나기 위해서다. 그곳에서 폐허 속 일상을 기록하던 감독은 러시아군의 공격으로 유명을 달리한다. 그의 연인을 비롯하여 남겨진 사람들은 감독이 남긴 푸티지로 비극과 희망을 동시에 안고 살아가는 이들에 관한 다큐멘터리, <마리우폴리스 2>를 완성한다.

The city of Mariupolis is by the Azov sea. It is also on the river Kalmius. Most of the city’s residents, half a million according to the last census, are working for the steel factory and do fishing, for leisure or food, in between shifts. The orthodox church towers above the city and its newly build bronze domes are sitting next to it, waiting to be donned. A tent near by is sheltering a crying icon, which receives a steady flow of visitors.

The story of the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer from Kamianets-Podilskyi and a female volunteer who ended up in occupied Mariupol.

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.

A story about Ukrainian monumental art of the Soviet period in Mariupol. Photographer Stanislav Ivanov lived in Mariupol all his life. He studied history, streets, houses, monumental art. Some of the mosaics are more than half a century old. The "Tree of Life" panel - created by a team of artists led by Alla Gorska and Viktor Zaretsky - was bricked up after the death of the artist and reopened in 2008. This and other stories were collected by Stanislav Ivanov and art critic Oleksandr Chernov in the album "All Shades of Mariupol Mosaics". After February 24, 2022, the mosaicists, like hundreds of thousands of residents of Mariupol, became hostages of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation. In the film, we are transported to peaceful Mariupol in December 2021 and, together with Stanislav, explore the city and its mosaics, transported to a place where time and the elements seemed to be the greatest threats.