15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Eli has only two personality traits: she works as a security guard at the Modern Arts Museum and her only friend is her golden pet fish. The loneliness of the modern man, the secluded life as if living in a fish tank and the internal cry for freedom are the main leitmotifs of this short film.
A portrait of a Bektashi Muslim matriarch and her hard-working family shows gender equality blooming where least expected - in a rural community of pious Muslims devoted to family and tradition in a tobacco-growing village in the Balkans.
