In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Two Romany teenagers fall in love after being sent away from their poor village in Eastern Slovakia to beg on the streets of wealthy Vienna. For the first time they get a glimpse of happiness, but it doesn't last long.
An inspector from the capital arrives in a village in the Arctic Circle to investigate a case of theft. However, not everyone is interested in seeing the investigation through to the end.
