The royal family invited her to perform in Monte Carlo. Daryna Shcherbyna, a formerly famous circus performer, encountered war in Dmytrivka, near Bucha. She equipped a bomb shelter and helped others survive. But she faced a harsh ultimatum – her dogs were not allowed into the shelter. Then Daria made a desperate decision not to abandon her pets and to survive on her own. She had once nursed back to health the girls – a Central Asian Shepherd and a Saint Bernard, and she couldn't abandon them in this new hardship. They shared hunger, cold, and fear among the three of them. And the three of them got out together as well.