Mother of Chernobyl  is a thirty minute Russian-language short film. Taking place in  1987  Ukraine  (a year after the Chernobyl disaster),  it follows the story of a woman named Masha,  who stayed behind in the radiation zone with her newborn baby. After deciding to trek back to Kiev to reunite with her family,  she  ventures  into  the  forest  and believes a soldier is chasing her to take away her child. Masha must fight to do the only thing  anyone could after Chernobyl: survive amidst unimaginable tragedy.