When Russia invades Ukraine, a quiet schoolteacher in a small industrial town picks up his camera and becomes an unlikely dissident. Pavel Talankin isn't a journalist or activist. He organises school events, makes quirky videos and is loved by his students. But when patriotic lessons and military drills begin replacing regular classes, Pavel starts filming. What emerges is a chilling portrait of how propaganda seeps into everyday life and how even children are drawn into the machinery of war.

As new laws silence dissent and fellow activists are jailed, Pavel's quiet resistance becomes increasingly dangerous. Filmed covertly over two years, the documentary is a gripping, courageous expose of a regime tightening its grip and one man's brave attempt to push back from the inside.

A powerful story of quiet defiance, captured at enormous personal risk.