Jury Dox

In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – pensioners, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the town’s desperate residents decided to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere. The story focuses on the Sikanov family, which has three children. The fifteen-year-old Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet plant manager, is the head of the family working as a miner in the illegal pit. Jura wants more than anything to run his own cafe somewhere far from home, but the responsibility for the two sisters and looming economic crisis pushes his dreams to a distant future.