EnglishFollowing decades of intense communist atheistic propaganda, the destruction of temples, and spiritual erasure, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left many Ukrainians in a profound vacuum of identity and faith. This powerful documentary chronicles the miraculous rebirth of the Roman Catholic Church in eastern Ukraine—a territory where its existence had been completely forgotten. Driven by the fearless pastoral mission of Father Yesha (called "God's madman") and the heroic arriving religious sisters, the film illustrates a modern expansion of the Acts of the Apostles. From celebrating the first post-war mass on frozen church steps in Kharkiv to establishing crucial underground networks, the Church became the sole beacon of human dignity, providing food, shelter, and spiritual light to a society reeling from joblessness, extreme winter frostbites, alcoholism, and a generation of neglected street children living in canals.
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