Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...

1986

90’lı yıllar, Belarus. Evalina, house müzik tutkusunun peşine düşerek Chicago’ya taşınmanın hayalini kurmaktadır. Ne yazık ki ABD vizesi almak oldukça zordur. Ülkeyi terk etmeye kararlı genç kadın, karaborsadan sahte bir istihdam doğrulama belgesi alarak riske girer.