Ballet students are one of the most important artistic and cultural communities in Ukraine. They are young, they believe in their future and cannot stop dancing. Dancing is their whole life. The Russian full-scale invasion transformed Ukraine and forced them to confront the possibility that their great dream of becoming dancers might be shattered. The best ones managed to get accepted by the best State Academies in the European Union, which allowed them to continue dancing. For these young people of the Ukrainian Generation Z, this is an opportunity but also a sense of duty: they are happy to be able to dance and safely go on with their lives, but they also feel privileged, constantly worried about their relatives left behind in Ukraine, where the war does not seem to end. The story centres on the five protagonists’ growth. Some of them are living in Italy, some in Slovacchia e some in Germany. The film intertwines their coming of age with Soviet archives, recalling the myth of Soviet dancers as ambassadors of Peace and the idea of brotherhood between the Ukrainian and Russian people.

Notwithstanding the course of the war, which is defining the development of the narration, the film recounts three years of their lives: three years to become the New Europeans; three years to become professional dancers; three years of great dedication and difficult choices, against the backdrop of a seemingly endless war.