In the middle of the chaotic 1999 Kosovo war, Mario, an Italian priest, refuses to abandon a dozen Albanian orphans in his care. Across the Adriatic Sea, the soulful and attractive Hana, leaves her life as a prostitute then makes her way across the Balkan battle zone in the hopes...

Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000 Euros bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with...

A bright, intelligent teenager, KRISTO, sits at his desk in a classroom. On the chalkboard, the teacher has written an essay topic: ‘My Lake’. Kristo ponders the meaning of these words as he writes: “The lake can give you everything if you just know how to ask.” Kristo looks out...

LUME is an Albanian woman who lives with her husband, ILIR, and her mother-in-law, REMZIJE, in a small isolated mountain village in Kosovo. She has lost her only child a decade earlier in the war and is now constantly haunted by night terrors. When she mysteriously suffers from a second...

Albania, 1996. Mira (36) is living in the industrial city of Elbasan with her two sons, Toni (16) and Albi (5). Her husband, Arben (39) has been working illegally in Greece for the past four years. Everyday life is a struggle for the family, as they are trying to survive...

A train is stuck in a tunnel. The shadows slowly become faces as daylight floods the wagon. NATHALIE sits near the window, in her business suit. After 20 years in France, she has become a true Parisienne. She and her boss VALÉRIE are on their way to Montenegro to solve...