Before the start of the war, the famous Ukrainian artist Evgenia Gapchynska had her own cosy place of strength, dreams, and inspiration – her own house in Makariv district of Kyiv region. She lived there with her husband, her daughter, and her son. On the first day of the invasion, when many people were leaving the capital, Evgenia, on the contrary, was going to Kyiv. That’s how she escaped the occupation.

While she and her children were in evacuation, and her husband was defending the country, the house of the Gapchinskys was plundered and damaged... The invaders stole not only the comfort and cosiness that the artist had carefully created with her own hands. The money collected for the dream also vanished...