Water is a symbol of life, development, creativity. Our planet Earth is rich in its water resources. One such resource is rivers. Each river has both its beginning (source, birth) and its finish (end, death). They flow and travel, pour into the seas and oceans to merge again with their aquatic universe, to return home to their large Water family. If we draw a parallel with a human life, then the river also has births, and rapid flows, and their twists of fate... Some have steep rapids, some are flat, almost like a straight road, and some are wide and luxurious with beautiful landscapes. In the world, everything is in a constant and eternal cycle, in development and rebirth, everything flows, everything changes. It is the eternal engine of all things. Throughout the film, we sail along the river: one camera on a boat—we are part of the river, the second camera on a drone—we look at the river from a bird’s eye view. We tell its story, legends related to the river, myths, sayings, and of course, we tell that it has always been closely connected with people, how it fed, transported, and even rescued them...
Every river is a personality. Rivers have their own spirit, soul, character. The Desna is agile and picturesque. The Dnieper is wide. The Bug has its rapids. And the Dniester has its world-famous Tovtry. The Danube flows through almost all of Europe and ends with its vast delta in the Black Sea. And they all exist for millions of years. In the sense of the state, rivers are its veins. They always irrigated the land, moved boats, established domestic and international relations, trade, and more.
Our film is a journey. We talk about the banks of rivers, about their inhabitants, about the historical significance of rivers in people’s lives. They have always united human settlements, cities, and countries, but at the same time, divided them, distinguished, formed their culture, certain territories, and historical and geographical names. As an example: the Dnieper’s right and left banks. The heroes of our film are also very different: by age, profession, nationality. But each of them speaks with great respect and love about their native river.
But, unfortunately, not everything is so good in our big Home now. Mankind is in reverie ... Rivers suffer from neglect, pollution, and environmental disasters. With our film, we want to help people remember that we are all children of Mother Nature, that rivers are like huge living beings who also need harmonious relationships and respect. We believe that now is the time to completely change our attitude to rivers, to the environment, to our beautiful planet Earth.
