The Zone: Post Atomic Journey

Synopsis

It’s a romantic story of friendship and love for an ended world, a pure survival trip among soviet memories and wild and contaminated nature, and a loving tribute to the famous Tarkovskij ‘s movie “Stalker”, the Strugatzki brothers’ book “Roadside picnic”, and the videogame “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”. Both authors are experts on issues related to radioactive contamination and have produced over the years various video and photographic reportages in the most polluted areas of the world, including Fukushima, Kysthym, Magnitogorsk, Karabash. Historical partners and supporters of the Volunteer Association Mondo in Cammino, with which they produced the documentary “Fukushima no Daymio” and “Behind the Urals”, winners of several national and international awards.There’s a new risky activity going on among Ukrainian youngsters: some of them in fact have recently started to illegally enter the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – in the centre of which there is the infamous Reactor 4 that exploded in 1986, making the area one of the most contaminated of the whole world.