The first film of documentary trilogy «Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus» covers the events of Vasyl Stus's life from birth to the beginning of the 70s. It contains interviews with his mother Iryna Stus, comrade Vasyl Shymanskyi, Roman Korohodskyi, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska, Marharyta Dovhan and others, photos from the times school and institute studies, army service, postgraduate study at the Institute of Literature, fragments from letters and essays.

Come back to me, my memory

The film marks the occasion of the 800-year anniversary of Chornobyl: an epitaph to the nuclear power station tragedy.  Lina Kostenko, the Ukrainian poetess, joins former residents on their annual trip to the dead town.