-If you are not at war,
you all the time experience a feeling of guilt.
Your house is not destroyed, and someone's is.
You are alive, and someone...not.
[dance music playing]
-Before the war, with my friends,
we did parties and tours for foreigners.
So we were like party makers and travelers.
[conversations in native language]
-When we came back here, it was empty city,
with a lot of block posts, with a lot of military.
Some buildings were ruined,
and it was not normal for me.
But then we decided to do this
community, Repair Together.
And it's become more better for me...easier.
-Repair together is a volunteer initiative to restore
Ukrainian communities after occupation.
-The story of the village, Yahidne, is very terrible.
It's really like a horror movie,
and you know that it's true.
[rain pounding]
-We were all sleeping seated in chairs.
Mostly, people were arguing and fearing
what would happen the next day.
Not just the next day, but in the next 10 minutes.
No one knew.
[rain pounding]
-People died in that basement.
-There was kids, so they saw all of this.
I don't know how they will live in future.
I hope they will be happy people in the future.
Their houses are destroyed, and
it can be years for this work from government.
-This Saturday, we tried out the
new format of cleaning.
[dance music playing]
We invited several DJs and turned on the music,
and just cleaned up.
That's the music that plays all the time on parties
we liked very much before the war.
I would say that it is a music
of joy of our generation.
-It's like, you don't think about everything.
You just move and feel the music.
[music continues]
-If people are coming here and helping us to the music,
it somehow helps the village get renewed.
and revived. Because before that,
people would walk around gloomy, emotionless, and this helps
them to forget the war a bit
and feel some joy, to bring back the life.
[indistinct conversations]
-Now all the village knows about us,
and now we are like good friends.
They meet us with food, with varenyky, with potato.
-When I'm doing something that is useful for
people, it makes me a little bit more happy
and not that frustrated and depressed.
[dance music playing]
-We want to show that we are not broken.
-It's not only repairing houses.
It's also repairing ourselves.
[dance music playing]