A film about contemporary Belarus, freedom and art. A mysterious artist appears on the streets of Minsk and starts to paint. Passers-by, intrigued, want to know what he is creating, but the artist will not reveal his secret. Step by step, the viewers learn more about him. His name is Zahar Cudin and he is one of the most promising Belorussian painters.
Two huge plastic elephants are being pulled down from the top of the great arena of the State Circus of Bucharest. Change has finally become unavoidable for the circus built by the communist regime in 1961. Wild animal shows are forbidden and Adi and his partner in training, Mioara, now have to see them off to the Zoo and are left without their job. To avoid crisis, the circus director calls in Adrian, a progressive show man from Las Vegas, who has been working for the famous Cirque du Soleil.
When Lena Corbyn, inherits a third of a British-Swiss mining empire, she aims to revolutionize Corbyn Commodities by closing a harmful coal mine in South Africa and granting employees shares of the family business. But her ambitious plan provokes existential angst in Lena's sister and niece, who will stop at nothing to preserve their privilege and the status quo.
