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1. 1. Endling

   

   Ukraine, 2022: Yeva, a solitary biologist living out of a mobile lab, is obsessed with saving a rare snail species while funding her work by entertaining Western “romance tour” visitors. When two sisters—posing as a bride and translator while searching for their activist mother—join her, the trio sets off on a risky journey across the country with a last-of-its-kind snail named Lefty in tow, only to have their plans upended by the Russian invasion.

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2. 2. Good Citizens Need Not Fear

   

   A linked collection of quietly devastating stories set in Soviet-era Ukraine that follows members of a single family across years and small domestic tragedies, tracing how bureaucratic coercion, superstition and ordinary cruelties shape memory, desire and the ways people shelter themselves; intimate, darkly comic and elegiac vignettes reveal the costs of survival under an oppressive regime and the private acts that amount to resistance.

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