Set in 1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine. Lera, a graduate of the pedagogical institute, gets a job placement as a junior school teacher in Prypyat, one of the coziest and well maintained towns of the Soviet Union. She meets a handsome 25-year-old lieutenant Ihor is the dreamboat for every girl in town and a new best friend Svitlana. At a party Lera meets the love of her life, nuclear engineer Vitas, who is in Chernobyl on a business trip before the events that not only shocked their lives but the lives of those living close to Chernobyl, Russia and the World.