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Georgian soldiers in training: a tough drill, push-ups on the Black Sea sands, punishment exercises in the mud. With his first pay volunteer Gurchiani buys his mother a sofa, and afterwards joins his pals at the water park. Life is a mixture of harassment and late adolescent light heartedness. On the left hand side of the screen however the clock is ticking: Gurchiani begins his service in April 2008. In August war with Russia erupts, military exercises and test alarms are transformed overnight into a bloody reality.

A nightmarish, optically-impressive real-time report on the consequences of military logic.