Slavik's Journey to Forever

A man wearing a knit hat and brown jacket stands on a rocky shoreline, looking out over a gray, choppy sea as dozens of seagulls fly and hover around him under a cloudy sky.

Obsessed with the idea that only he could preserve the true memory of Mariupol, Slavik gave up his business in the late 1990s and began tirelessly collecting artifacts and stories from the city, unaware that he was, in fact, gathering evidence of a world that would be destroyed by the Russians.

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