An authentic and shocking, yet relevant exploration of how people still live during the war in Ukraine.

An unexpected war disrupts people’s daily lives and routines. This unsolicited war changes everyone’s lives. This senseless war penetrates traditions, habits and cherished pastimes. But even soldiers return home on leave from the front line. They embrace their loved ones at the railway station, awaiting their next lucky encounter. There are many Ukrainian filmmakers currently at war. Not only do they defend the freedom of Ukraine, but they also film daily life in the trenches, city streets during air alerts, abandoned fields, happy weddings and tearful farewells. They obtain permission from the army to leave Ukraine and present their films at international festivals.

Three Ukrainian directors, Yelizaveta, Alina and Simon, took cameras on their missions to capture the various normalities of brutal warfare and observe ordinary people in the uncertain emergency of a devastating invasion. This fragmented, impactful and immersive film combines the Latin word for soldier (‘milit’) and the Greek word for human (‘anthropos’) to convey the fractured lives of Ukrainians trying to adapt, survive and sometimes celebrate, in the hope that they may one day return to normality.