When the state fails to protect its own people, inhabitants of a remote Ukrainian village take control in their own hands. In the country with the biggest police force in Europe, Ukraine, there is a lack of policemen in rural communities therefore villagers of Stara Zburievka village have found a solution. They chose two local men – the smartest and the strongest – to take care of the public order. Villagers give them power, a car, and shiny tokens and name them "sheriffs". Sometimes wild and violent, the other times awkward and funny, sheriffs’ actions, according to the village community, are always fair. However, the recent political events taking place in Ukraine have changed the situation in Stara Zburievka village, too. Will the sheriffs’ activities, which started as a protest to the existing corrupted system, be able to cope with the new, complex and revolutionary transition?The village of Stara Zburievka may serve as a symbol of the whole country of Ukraine that stands on the borderline between East and West, between the old and the new, between ruling from above and managing on one’s own. Stara Zburievka is a portray of a place, which wants to establish a functioning society system and democratic European oriented structure.“Ukrainian Sheriffs” is an observational road movie that follows two sheriffs, the town head and villagers of Stara Zburievka in their daily duties and investigation both on a small and large scale on their social and private lives. Stara Zburievka is a perfect microcosm, which shows the bigger picture of Ukraine through emotional and humorous inside story, touching colourful historical, social, economic, cultural, and political aspects. It is a kind, ironic, sometimes shocking film about a village that learns to cope with its problems.