Have you ever wondered why so many people opened their doors to complete strangers? Sure – the starry sky above me, the moral law within me, the humanitarian imperative. Anyone would have done the same, right? Only, not everyone did.

We are sitting in the Kino Nowe Horyzonty café, where Anastazja tells me about her experience of being hosted by a young couple in Wrocław a few weeks after the full-scale war began. I notice that during our hour-long conversation,

– The most difficult was seeing Luba in this limbo. She was constantly waiting to be with her husband, to get her normal life back. She was a truly strong woman, but she kept saying she was in such quicksand

– This story had several acts. t’s hard to clearly define what that time of living together really was…We were there as if in a beautiful prison. I know how that sounds. And again, I have to say how deeply

When someone asks her where she is from, Alexandra doesn't know what she should answer. She was born near Lviv, in Drohobych. She married in Donetsk, where she lived with her family until 2014, until, as she says, “the war