A huge spruce is cut down in the mountains to be used as a Christmas tree in the center of Sofia. As it is transported across the country it becomes the link between six stories that explore celebration or the luck of celebration in the everyday lives of the protagonists. The structure of the film is fragmentary, as our life is these days and the stories resemble snapshots of e...
The film consists of three, at first glance independent, stories and follows three situations developing simultaneously within a few days. Narrated parallel, they gradually reveal the connections between the members of a family and, at the same time, the disintegrated human communication between the characters - husbands and wives, brothers, parents, children. The threads of th...
Unemployed friends Doka and Bonza haven't managed to gain a foothold in the new economic climate. They liven up their inactivity with infantile distractions. Big shots from the former regime have meanwhile built up new careers, having caught the crest of the privatization wave. Adopting the appropriate cynicism and employing mafia tactics, they line their pockets and reinforce ...
The father of three grown sons has remarried and his sons all have their own separate lives. When their father announces he is leaving for America they move into his house in an attempt to forge new links of intimacy with one another. However, with the appearance of Maria, their illusions of America are shattered. They discover that their father has not in fact emigrated but is...