In the Ukrainian Carpathians, on the borders of Poland and Slovakia, lies an isolated village on the edge of the EU. In Stuzhytsya—literally, “cold place”—live Hannah, a farmer, Maria, a postal worker and Neyla, a biologist. Maksym Melnyk and his cameraman spent a year observing the ways in which they live (and survive) in this rural community, eventually becoming a part of it themselves.