Kyiv, 1989. A demonstration dedicated to the anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy is happening at the “Dynamo” stadium – all the seats are filled, the words “Chornobyl, Prypiat, a warning” are visible on the scoreboard. People took to the streets in search of truth because years after the tragedy, there was still no comprehension or public awareness of the real dangers of radiation, and a general feeling that no one from the government had been punished for the accident or for carrying on with the 1st of May demonstration held in Kyiv in the first days of the tragedy. Director Heorhii Shkliarevskyi, a representative of the critical documentary film movement of the 1980s, created his film around the monologues of the heroic liquidators, former dwellers of the exclusion zone and concerned Kyivites. An additional hero of the film is the microphone – a symbol of awakened democracy in the late Soviet period.