Bengal flares in the night: Chernobyl, eternal friendship, the end of a dream

Life in Pripyat is a dream. Life in Pripyat is the future, and everything a young specialist at Chernobyl Power plant may desire. This is what Leonid Toptunov and his best friend Sasha Korol think, and what they have once arrived there, together with all their lives ahead. Spring is sprung, in April 1986, with the hopes, the peaceful atom, the dreams, the ideas, the wind of change that comes as light as the music spread in the air. Life in Pripyat goes ahead like an endless dance, and lights in Pripyat bright in every corner... But one night, lights suddenly go out. A safety test ran at Chernobyl power plant, something never done before, let Leonid suddenly wake up from his dreams, and let the history change forever. The explosion of reactor number 4 comes like a huge Bengal flare, a marvellous, astonishing yet deadly northern lights-like glow passing through the sky. "Bengal flares in the night" is a story about "before and after", about destiny, about eternal friendship and memory, a hymn to life that even the worst of the disaster may destroy.