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It's September 2020, and Armenia and Azerbaijan are at war. The contested territory: the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) region, a source of conflict between the two countries for decades now. Nearing the end of his military service, Soghomon, a musician, filmmaker Shoghakat Vardanyan's brother, disappears during a mission. Ever since, his desperate family has been attempting to regain contact with him. However, they can neither reach him by phone nor do they receive any new information from the responsible authorities, who have evidently lost all trace of the missing soldier. In these moments of total helplessness, Vardanyan takes out her phone-camera and films their shared everyday life, capturing very intimate interactions between herself and her parents that depict a fraction of this uncertain period: recordings of futile attempts at communication, of scenes in which they try to continue to lead "normal" lives, or of newly gained knowledge that they process together within the family home. All of these situations have two things in common: the pain of uncertainty and the simultaneous, inexorable continuity of lives that must go on.