Description: Behind Your Back paints a portrait of womanhood in war-torn Ukraine. In 2015, Marta's comfortable life, distant from politics and war, is upset when her boyfriend Max is drafted to serve in the Ukrainian Army. Social pressures and new norms push her to a breaking point and force her to reconsider freedom and happiness.
Brief description: Haska (Halyna) Shyyan is a bookshop owner, writer, poet, and translator. Her novel Behind Your Back was the first Ukrainian novel to receive the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019 and also won multiple Ukrainian literary prizes.