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A young Ukrainian journalist films “stories” on Instagram from the center of events. In the daytime, he is at the political demonstrations, at night – at the bars and parties. He has to decide where his own place is.

"Thus they will sing" is a movie-collage that interweaves human experiences, soromitski (shaming) songs and the flow of modern life. Soromnitski (shaming) songs are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (evening parties), and feasts. Although they were quite shameful to sing in everyday life, they were broadcasting the man and woman's behavior patterns. The tradition of creating the spivankas (these songs) still exists. Ostap Bohoslovets from Nadvirna town re-analyses the modern world of youth in his own spivankas

A young Orthodox priest, fed up with too much intolerance and hypocrisy at the Kyiv Pechery Lavra, decides to leave his service there. He finds for himself a new flock: gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people as well as those living with HIV/AIDS. However, the official Orthodox Church denies them in the right to be Christians and homophobic society compels them to hide their sexual orientation. What has to happen to make the Church embower LGBT believers?

A group of reporters arrives to the village Vilkovo (knows as "Ukrainian Venice") to see how the vacuum sewers functions. Three years ago, this 4.5 million euro project was implemented by the European Union. What do the officials hide from them, and why was the project unsuccessful?