Is kindness useless during war?

A tribute to all who face hardship with kindness

**Warning: contains mentions and depictions of war, death, and human suffering.**

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Story

Lama, a girl in her twenties, lives in a internally displaced people's camp with her family in war-torn Azura, trying to survive while being pulled between personal values, medical ethics, faith, and a little bit of hope. 

Features

• 4 endings; 15-40 minutes per playthrough
• 22 hand-drawn art based on photographs 'from the ground'
  
• No generative AI was used in the making of this  
  
• Based on a true story

Disclaimer

This is non-fiction wrapped in fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is not necessarily coincidental. Names of characters and places have been anonymized. Narrative details have been added or merged to condense real life stories into the form of a visual novel.

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Foreward

"It’s as if you start reading someone’s diary - and before you know it, you’re travelling through time and place. Here is your mother, she is making your morning tea. Here is your friend, you are going to work together.

Except your workplace is a war hospital. And when we think of war, isn’t danger, suffering, devastation all we see? Isn’t that why we look away - if only because the pain feels unbearable to witness?

What I loved about on this Land is that it helps you not to look away.

Come, Lama seems to say. Take my hand. Let me show you how strong I have to be. How fragile I am. Let me show you humility and kindness. My anger and despair. Maybe it will make you just as angry as I am. Maybe it will give you hope. Maybe it will give me hope too.

This shared humanity is a precious gift.

And if these faithful words, sublime drawings, and thoughtful sound design can do this - then this is art at its most powerful."

- Maryna

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Reviews

"It's honest. It's not trying to be something it's not. It's a peek into a life of struggle, and you see a woman try and navigate that." - StaySoft

"I like how the two characters help each other cling onto their kindness." - Yasmina