...In the village of Mala Starogradivka, which is located in the so-called gray zone, only two people are left to live - forty-nine-year-old pensioner Serhiy Serhiyovych and his former classmate Pashka. And they, having completely opposite views on life, are forced to put up with each other, even though one is visited by the Ukrainian military, and the other by separatists. Serhiyevich's main concern is how and where to take his bees away from the war - all six hives - with the onset of spring. Take it to a place where they don't shoot, so that the honey doesn't have the aftertaste of war. Having set out on the road, the beekeeper himself has no idea what trials await him and his bees. After a not entirely successful stop near Zaporizhzhia, he decides to go with bees to the Crimea, to a Tatar whom he met more than twenty years ago at a beekeepers' convention. He cannot even imagine that the summer spent in the Crimea will teach him not to trust not only people, but also his own bees.