The Gateway

The story takes place inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone. The oldest person in the house is Grandma Prisa. She says she talks with water nymphs. The mushrooms she eats take her somewhere else. She also has a claim. She says she killed twelve SS soldiers with her own hands during the Second World War. Nobody has been able to confirm it. Her daughter Slava lives in the house with her. She is divorced and chronically ill. There is a grandson, Vova, as well. The three of them live a quiet and measured life. Then that arrangement breaks. A warning reaches Grandma Prisa. It speaks of a catastrophe on the way. Irma Vitovska and Vitalina Bibliv appear in the hundred and seven minute film, a Ukrainian and American co-production Volodymyr Tykhyy finished in 2017.