Novorossiya is shot on the Ukrainian eastern fronts of Donetsk where the pro-Russian separatists had been waging a war against Ukraine even before Putin’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The future is uncertain, but in Donbass life continues despite bombardments flaring up at every sunset. This is just another day for an American communist foreign fighter, a captain nostalgic of the Soviet Union, an opera singer and two young metal band players.