2019, Summer. Mysha, a 26-year-old PhD student from Kyiv, travels to Kraków to join an international research project on migrant lives. But she soon realizes that the project’s humanist slogans are merely a façade for political games. Confronted with the pain and tragedies of people whose lives are being shattered behind closed doors, Mysha undergoes a profound transformation. Violence, betrayal, and personal loss reshape her entirely.
What kind of person will she be when she returns home?
And what — or who — will be waiting for her there?
Real Estate is a snapshot of human lives on the eve of the pandemic, on the brink of full-scale war — historical tremors that resemble tectonic shifts, with our lives drifting like tiny boats in an ocean of white noise. It’s a story of uncertainty and anxiety, of memory already slipping away beneath the endless tide of new and newer information, of pain, of tragedy, and of collapse. And yet, it’s also a story of love that breaks through — like a plant pushing up through concrete.