For more than a month, Antonina and her husband lived in occupied Berdiansk. She worked at a music school until the last minute, out of inertia, not fully aware of what had happened. Eventually, she decided to go to her daughter in Irpin by the “road of life” – through Vasylivka to Zaporizhzhia. Having left two apartments in Berdiansk, she has no doubt that a free life is much more valuable.