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In Albania's post-communist landscape, a lonely mother, Mira, and her troubled teenage son, Toni, struggle through an outbreak of civil violence that tears their East European nation apart.

The archivist Fadili finds himself in a difficult situation, with an impossible choice of two options, fully aware that both of them are wrong. As a consequence of his decision Fadil involuntarily and unwillingly, has to swallow the shame.

The plot follows Natali, who left the former Yugoslavia immediately after the beginning of the wars of the 1990s. Like many other people from this area, she emigrated abroad in search of a better life and a more secure future. After several years spent abroad, wanting to fully adapt to life in a new environment, she wished to change her identity and erase her origins. An unusual legal case regarding the inheritance of a rich elderly woman who did not have a family will bring her back to her country of origin, Montenegro.

The story takes place in March 1999, Kosovo. it is the period of NATO bombing. Massive displacement of Albanians on ethnic basis. Terror, fear, insecurity, hunger has plagued Gjakova town located on the border with Albania. This does not exclude that along the narration the situations are built on a logic flow, moments of humor, eroticism, that occasionally avoid blackness of circumstances, which cross the theme of the film. The film initially develops in two parallel lines that then converge, connected to a common thread, where, at the end, each of the lines goes back to its own fate. It is a film for adults and children too.