Svitlana learned about the beginning of the war from a neighbour. Difficult days of uncertainty dragged on, then the fighting reached Kodra's native village. Did a child die from a bomb dropped by the Russians? Another child and a woman were injured.

Once Svitlana was walking home from a neighbor she was helping, and noticed a strange man. He looked and behaved suspiciously, but the woman was not confused, she called her friend and offered to take him to the dining room. There, the unsuccessful saboteur was handed over to the Local Self-Defense Forces.