More than three years ago, Russia invaded and started a war on Ukraine. How do you live with the fear of attacks and destruction? Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai has picked out one aspect of everyday life under the dictates of war and visited schools in areas close to the front, which are trying to maintain continuous service despite bombed-out buildings and constant alarms, and thus also a piece of normality. It shows how pupils go through their lessons via Zoom, how they learn to pack an emergency bag or how parents complain about the time it takes to rebuild the destroyed school building. Timestamp shows the Ukrainian people's will to resist as well as their hope, but it also makes us feel the constant tension under which the population lives. Gornostai has courageously created her film, which she shot from March 2023 to June 2024, over the course of a school year, as a consistent documentary of a kind rarely seen today: The camera only observes, there are no protagonists, no interviews, no re-enacted scenes.