The story of is placed at the end of the 19th and at the second half of the 20th century. The locations are different and completely opposite: the rural Macedonia at one hand, and the urban environment of an industrial region in Belgium at another...
성당에서 침묵의 서약을 한 젊은 수도사 키릴은 쫓기고 있는 알바니아 소녀 자밀라를 숨겨주지만 그녀의 말조차 알아듣지 못한다. 어느새 그녀는 그의 마음 속에 자리잡게 되고 무장한 사내들이 그녀를 찾아 성당을 기습할 때도 그는 자신의 평화를 깨트릴 위험에 빠지게 됐다는 사실조차 잊어버린다. 한편 사진편집인 앤은 남편 닉과 종군 사진작가 알렉산더 사이에서 사랑의 갈등을 겪게 되고 알렉산더는 마음의 평화를 찾기 위해 고향으로 돌아간다. 하지만 어느새 그곳도 전쟁의 기운에 휩싸여 있다. 어느날 과거의 연인이었던 안나가 자신의 실종된 딸을 찾아달라고 부탁하자 그는 카메라를 통해서 경험했던 민족분규를 경험하게 된다.
Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.
A story about a man who appropriates other people's knowledge and achievements and erects a monument to himself in whose justification and necessity he believes.
Young scientist Zare and his wife, a theater costume designer Mira, live in a rented apartment where they were under the pressure of curious and disturbing neighbors. Once Zare was given the keys of the Ethnographic Museum in Ohrid in order to sort out the situation in this museum, this means escape for the family.
