Five letters to a friend : 2015-2017. In 1981, Ukrainian director Ivan Mykolaichuk shot his film “Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn” about Ukrainian migrant who misses homeland and comes back from Canada to Ukraine. Ten years later, in 1991 Ukraine gained independence. Since then millions of Ukrainian emigrated to seek a better life; in the very Ukraine grew up the first generation for whom the independence of their country is the only natural experience. What meaning has filled the words “to come from Ukraine”? “To come from the south of Ukraine”? Or - more personally - “to come from Odessa?”