Vice News looks at how the invasion of Ukraine has reshaped daily life and public opinion inside Russia. Correspondents and interview subjects describe a country where independent media has been shut down, dissent carries criminal penalties, and state television frames the war as a defensive necessity against Western aggression. The film follows ordinary Russians navigating this altered reality, from those who have absorbed the official narrative to others who quietly doubt it but stay silent out of fear of arrest or social exile. Sanctions, economic strain, and the exodus of young men avoiding conscription form a backdrop to conversations about propaganda's reach and the psychological toll of living under constant messaging about an external enemy. The documentary does not editorialize heavily; it lets footage of rallies, classroom patriotism lessons, and street interviews carry the argument about how a population adjusts, rationalizes, or resists when war becomes the organizing fact of national life.