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February 24th, 2022,  Russia invaded Ukraine. As most of the world watched in shock, the artists, musicians, writers and keepers of culture in Ukraine rose to the challenge of defending their homeland in any way possible. From setting down their brushes and instruments and picking up unfamiliar weapons of war and heading to the front line to using their paintings, their murals, their music to inspire their fellow Ukrainians and to let the rest of the world know what’s going on in Ukraine, to curators staying in museums that were potentially targeted for bombing to protect the cultural history of their country, risking their lives to hide priceless works of art. Musicians bringing their voices to the front lines to inspire, photographers recording the everyday brutality of war, artists using any materials on hand to sketch images of life living in a bomb shelter. This documentary looks at several of these people to see what inspired them to speak out, how they have managed to hold on during the war and what they want the rest of the world to see in their very real struggle for Ukraine's identity.