Artiom a 18 ans et un seul souhait : se battre pour sa patrie - l’Ukraine. Il pense qu’il sait tout de la guerre grâce aux vidéos YouTube. Il porte des des treillis, et simule les situations de combat, se camoufle. Il quitte sa petite amie, pour aller à la guerre qui fait rage à quelques heures de train de-là. Un documentaire sur la fin de l’enfance.

Artiom is 18 years old and has just one wish: to go to war and fight for his homeland, Ukraine. Everything else comes second. He dresses in camouflage, watches war videos online, and in his free time practices battle scenes with his friends. Or at least they think they are battle scenes. As a child, he only sees the surface of the war. And he has the bad luck that the fighting rages so tantalizingly close. This observational documentary is a fascinating study of the cult of war in a post-Soviet setting where those who succumb to the allure of battle are the least suitable and least predisposed to fighting – a fact perfectly illustrated by Artiom’s final struggle with the reality of war.