Feeling uneasy and full of anxiety, Melanie starts a seemingly harmless trip on the cruise liner ‘Borysthenes’, which is going down the Dnieper river from Kyiv, heading for the Black Sea and on to Sevastopol in Crimea. Foreseeable is fourteen days of church viewing, museum visits, city tours. What she fears is confronting the past…The reason for this journey is a research assignment, but she isn’t succeeding in keeping her scientific questions free of her own emotions. What she wants to find out from her fellow travellers is tempered by what she knows herself. What was almost unbearable for her to read in the documents must become here, on the scene, the crucial test…