WAR IN TWO HEART
Love on Enemies
One War, Two Hearts,
Lviv, Ukraine, late 2021. The snow-covered city still has no sign of war. Anastasia Petrova, a talented musician and student of the Kiev Conservatory, has come to Lviv to participate in a classical music competition. Her life's dream—to one day play the violin on the world's best music stage. That's when she meets Alexei Mikhailovich—a Russian journalist who has come to cover the competition. Alexei is calm, elegant, and has a strange depth in his eyes. Something happens at first sight—the touch between their eyes doesn't need language. After the music competition, Anastasia and Alexei go for coffee together. They have a strange similarity, a unity of feelings that develops even though they speak different languages. Over the next month, Alexei visits Ukraine several times. They fall in love—quietly, deeply, but secretly. February 2022. Russia invades Ukraine. Suddenly, fire falls from the sky. Bombs, missiles, and military operations change people's lives. In Kiev, Anastasia spends days and nights in a bunker, where she still plays the violin to drown out the sounds of war. Alexei has already returned to his country. But their love is now "the love of an enemy country." Phones are off, internet is limited, communication is impossible. Alexei knows that he will not be able to cover the war as a journalist. He decides to return to Ukraine, this time hiding his identity. He forges a passport, crosses the Polish border and reaches Lviv. There, he joins a volunteer organization in the name of helping Ukrainian refugees. With the help of a friend, he learns that Anastasia now teaches music to children in a shelter in Kiev. He now has only one goal in mind - to see Anastasia's face once. Kiev is a destroyed city. Alexei enters the city on foot, secretly, in a civilian truck. He finds Anastasia in the rubble of Kiev. After a long time, they meet. Tears in her eyes, silence on her face.
