Three years that forever changed the political map of the world and marked the birth of an independent Ukraine. Through the testimonies of those directly involved in the events – Leonid Kravchuk, Stanislav Shushkevich, Hennadiy Burbulis, James Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Ukrainian intellectuals – Serhiy Bukovsky reconstructs the history of 1989–1991, combining exclusive interviews with rare archival footage.