In 2014, Anna was preparing for her graduation, but the war overshadowed the celebration. She has always remembered the train she and her mother were travelling on through Donetsk, where a shelling took place, and the people who ran away, throwing their belongings. Who knew that eight years later, she, along with her mother and younger sister, would leave everything behind just to escape – from a burning car, from a city in flames? And then, shell-shocked, she would walk long kilometres along the road alongside burnt-out cars and the bodies of the dead, begging her sister for only one thing: don’t look around.

Looking back, Anna realises that she still feels uprooted – from her family, her home, her peaceful life. But she has learned to talk about her past as an experience. An experience that hardened her, made her stronger and forever unbreakable.