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202626 minPGdocumentary

A Normal Life

202626 minPGdocumentary

A mother in Ukraine struggles to maintain her family's unity and redefine normality amidst the devastation caused by Russia's occupation.

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A mother in Ukraine struggles to maintain her family's unity and redefine normality amidst the devastation caused by Russia's occupation.

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Mykola Nosok

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After escaping the russia's occupation, a mother of many children struggles to keep her family together, trying to build a “normal life” on the ruins of a destroyed world — and gradually discovers that normality no longer means peace, but only the ability to go on living, to love, and not to lose herself.

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