'Under the spell of Chernobyl' is a series by VRT journalist and Russia expert Jan Balliauw about the disaster in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986. In Ukraine, Jan meets the people on whom the series is based. Eyewitnesses tell him what they saw and experienced that day. What the consequences of the disaster were on their lives and health. What myths exist about it. Why they watched HBO's fiction series, or why they can't watch it.