Ivaylo Hristov

All kind of crazy characters would gather for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration in honor of a young unsuspecting graduate. However, that very night their lives would change forever because when you mesh all those unapologetic egos together, it is like a ticking time bomb.

Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct.

The stories of three men get tangled up in the life of the young Gipsy called Magdalena - that of the Bulgarian Lilyanin, who starts off as a fighter for brotherhood but turns into a persecutor of the Gypsies; the story of the savage Halibryamov, who knows the language of animals, but does not speak any human tongue; the story of a rich Gypsy called Kanyo who wants but does not dare to break with the lot of his kin, and story of a Frenchman in a wheelchair who comes to realize that money cannot buy everything. Magic alone can unravel this knot of destinies... And then, there is the Gypsy tale of the black swallow and how it came to be.

This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way.

In the busy everyday life of an emancipated and seemingly content woman, a "crisis of awareness" occurs from a random incident.

A retelling of a crucial story of Bulgaria's troubled times based on the memoirs of Zahariy Stoyanov