The play by 20-year-old Maria Khodakivska, written to calm the shocks of the first days of the war in Kharkiv

Collage by Olena Zelenina.

The war caught 18-year-old Mariia Khodakivska in Kharkiv, where she was studying cello at the B. Liatoshynskyi Art College. Shock, horror, despair... She was sure that the first day of the war would be the last day of her life.