The Voice of ljudmila (Ljudmilas röst)

A film about love and memories and how the past is always present in life.
In 1986, Ljudmila Ignatenko was 23 years old, very much in love with her husband Vasili, a fireman, and five months pregnant. They lived in Pripyat, the city built around the Chernobyl nuclear plant. On the night of 25 April Reactor 4 exploded. Vasili was one of the first six firemen scrambled to put out the raging fire that was the direct consequence of this explosion. Ljudmila’s story is more than a witness’s account of Chernobyl. It is the story of love in the fatal shadow of death; about the nightmarish situation where a loved person – a child, a husband, a wife – calls your name but to approach that person and to hold him or her in your arms entails mortal danger. Do we stand behind the screen or do we follow the path of love?