Market Square in Lviv, Saturday morning.
Despite the frost and a few snowflakes, the space in front of the Ratusha (the town hall) is filled with young, curious, photographers.
The Kalush Orchestra is testing speakers and microphones before performing with "Stefania", a song that combines folk and rap sounds.
Piece that will be presented at Eurovision 2022 at the beginning of May. The band, at the Turin edition, will represent Ukraine and before arriving in Italy they will be on tour for Europe.
"Music always plays a role and we want to show the unity of the Ukrainian people," explains frontman Oleh Psiuk.
Lviv, despite the sirens coming back from time to time, try to leave again.
The Opera House, a Unesco heritage site and active for 120 years,
has decided to resume its schedule after a month of suspension and, for the evening of Saturday, the national dance troupe of the city will perform.
Of course, getting used to a normal life in a state of war is not easy.
"There weren't many people on Friday night, but we hope it will increase", smiles one of the ticket clerks.
After all, Lviv is one of the capitals of music in Ukraine and, in the name of music, from the liturgical one of the Orthodox churches always crowded to that of a young violinist in the street, it tries to come back to life.
The Kalush Orchestra, before joining Eurovision, organized a tour of Europe with a twofold objective: to fill the arenas and turn the proceeds into aid for Kiev.
"We are confident in a great help from Italy, also because our music is 'cool'", is the hope of the frontman.
In the square his band puts on the plate a performance with a clear pacifist message seen with three of the five members dressed in the same camouflage with which the tanks are camouflaged.
"But we are only one of Ukraine's ambassadors in the world", Psiuk fights.
The sixth weekend of the war in Lviv is marked by a double anti-aircraft alarm and by the feeling that the conflict is increasingly moved to the East and to the shores of the Black Sea. some days now he sells draft beer.
The flow of displaced people is no longer unique: more than six hundred thousand Ukrainians have returned to their homeland, according to the
Talking about the war over clearly remains a taboo.
To remember it is another type of music, the one played by members of the Ukrainian army in front of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
It is the church where, for more than a month, the funeral of the soldiers who died in the field has been celebrated.
And there is not a day that the desperate cry of their mothers does not resound in the great nave of the Jesuit church.