A portrait of a lonely woman. She works four jobs in a depopulated, monotonous Ukrainian town – she manages to balance the impossible, somehow evading the weight of her life. Prosaic rituals that do not involve profit and an irrational belief in the unattainable become her leitmotifs.

A visual poem about the urban environment and the contemporary labour market at different hours of the day. This experimental fiction short is directed by Nataliya Ilchuk, a Ukrainian born in Lviv, who studied at the Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Art in France after studying cinema in Kiev and Warsaw. She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Cergy in Paris, researching autoethnography and the possibility of strengthening authors’ creative freedom under conditions of self-censorship and censorship. As in The Seventh Shift, shot on 16mm film, so in her previous works she has turned to a fusion of newly created, staged and documentary footage.