A couple for whom physical proximity doesn’t mean spiritual closeness at all, make their way to a family event outside the city ; a disagreement over a mundane issue forces them to stop, yielding an unexpected yet predictable discovery.
A young woman seeks escape from the suffocating atmosphere at home and the Azerbaijani capital Baku is portrayed as a wonderful, blue-grey intermediate zone where modernity and tradition collide. In the words of Allen Ginsberg: "None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway."
Samir is an amateur filmmaker. Along with his despotic father and older sister Roza he resides in “Shanghai”, a slum located in close proximity to downtown Baku, the capital of the oil rich Republic of Azerbaijan. By sheer accident, Samir captures a video of Roza getting intimate with her boyfriend.
