Dani loves his girlfriend, Monica, but he is always late and has lost the expensive watch she gave him as a birthday present. Tired and disappointed by his lack of commitment, she breaks up with him. On the advice of his amateur psychologist friend, Elias, Dani sets off on an impossible quest to retrieve the watch, to prove his love to Monica and save their relationship.
When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.
In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter's family from a Kazakh village in the highlands is trying to stay alive in the midst of the fierce winter and face a moral choice, to die as human beings or to survive at any cost, transgressing the human decency.
