A Polish vehicle traverses the roads of Ukraine. On board, people are evacuated following the Russian invasion. This van becomes a fragile and transitory refuge, a zone of confidences and confessions for exiles who have only one objective, to escape the war.

Blurring the line between objective observer and force for change, filmmaker Maciek Hamela documents his work as an evacuation driver in this clear-eyed film. Unfolding as a series of refugee portraits, In the Rearview negotiates a decimated landscape to gather compelling testimonies of survival.