During the occupation, a librarian mother sent her son diary entries and immediately deleted them as storing them on her phone was dangerous. Her husband was against the idea, but she continued writing in secret. Her son created illustrations for the texts with the help of AI and published the diary after Kherson was liberated.
The extreme experience of living under constant threat is easy to read between the lines of Kateryna's diary. It irreversibly changed her and her family, but never broke them. Just a month after the liberation of Chernihiv Oblast, she, along with fellow ethnologists, began collecting stories of civilians who witnessed the war firsthand.
A girl reflects on how people deal with the loss of loved ones. She takes a napkin and writes down how she spent her day – her tomorrow she yet has to live. As she writes, she realizes that tomorrow does exist.
“When I hear salvos of guns or rockets, my body confuses me. My knees start knocking, and my hands start trembling. To relieve tremors, I continue to work on the painting that I hadn't finished before the war”
