Strymon Film

Kalin, an 11-year-old boy who dreams of space and the journey to it by becoming an astronaut or an engineer who builds rockets.

A young Roma girl named Fati finds out about her grandmother’s illness—anemia due to iron-deficiency. Disappointed because of her lack of money to buy the necessary medicine, she sees a notice in a discarded newspaper: ‘Ecological Action: wagons for old iron arrive in train station for recycling’. She comes up with a creative plan and goes to see Andrej, the local mafia boss who often visits Grandmother Fatima for fortunetelling. The superstitious boss orders his bodyguards to rob the train and deliver the iron to the old lady. Amazed by the ironic story, the police officers release Perhan and help to obtain the necessary medication for Fatima.

Story of love and pain through the life of two sisters, Angela and Mihaela. Their fears, hopes and plans grow and crash through the years. Nowadays, childhood simplicity and naivety are lost in the “cruel” world of the grownups.

In The Lower Prespa region, especially in the village of Nakolec, but also in the surrounding villages, for decades (and perhaps centuries) there has been a tradition of organically created coexistence based on mutual understanding and respect. The everyday life of the protagonists there and their mutual relations is actually a kind of model in which a certain code for togetherness and social cohesion between people of different ethnic, religious and other profiles is hidden.