Borislav Tsankov

A middle-aged Bulgarian is watching the change of the guard in front of the Buckingham Palace. For no apparent reason, while looking, in his mind he gets back to his childhood in the little Bulgarian village, he grew up in. Different rites, different traditions and still he finds something in common. He recalls the people he knew, he feared or admired. He ponders over that life of no brilliance, where people plough, harvest, marry and die, celebrate or grieve. Miracle are also worked, conceived in a unlimited child's imagination. It is the child's perception of the world that helps us to give a meaning to the major questions of human existence.

1945. Among the rubble from the Sofia bombardment a group of kids with the oldest one being 12, make secret plans for a sea voyage. As it should be done, the plans are devised in a gloomy basement of a destroyed building. The vow "Silence to the death" is said. The main source of the kids is the diary "Magellan". At the same time the kids start to collect donation for the wounded at the front. One day, the money collected by the kids disappears. After numerous doubts and uncertainties, it turns out that the kids do not stole the money. The journey happens in their dreams.