El pasado borracho de Bert lo alcanza 20 años después cuando él y su padre son secuestrados por aquellos a quienes Bert agravió hace 20 años mientras estaba borracho en un semestre universitario en el extranjero en Rusia.
Con la esperanza de hallar una vida mejor, dos jóvenes parejas deciden emigrar a Europa occidental. Los albaneses Melinda y Nik van a Italia para poder vivir libremente su relación prohibida. Los serbios Vera y Marko cruzan Hungría rumbo a Austria. Marko, un violonchelista de notable talento, ha conseguido que lo acepten en la Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena. Pero al llegar a la frontera, y pese a tener los visados en regla, empiezan a tener problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)
The screenplay was written immediately after the bombing of Novi Sad, 1999, but it was only a motive to speak up about the people that were humiliated for more than ten years in various ways, and that way became the victims of wrong politics, not only Milosevic's, but Western as well. The title of the movie was born there. In the second book of Moses it is written: " An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings." The people who suffered most in the wars on this territory are the ones that had no influence of what so ever on the development of situation on the Balkan. But, at the same time. there was ambitious youth, that the sense of their life in these stormy time. The film is about them and that is why it sounds optimistic. Film is about the fact that we will always have the energy to survive senseless time and live normally after that.
