Synopsis

After forty-five years of emigration to Canada, Alexander returns to Macedonia, to his hometown of Skopje. In 1977, he is seventeen years old and Macedonia is part of communist Yugoslavia. Alexander and his childhood best friend, raised in anti-communist families, decide in high school where they learn to spread leaflets against the communist party and the state. The day they have to do it, Arsen will not appear. Alexander will distribute the leaflets himself and will be arrested. He understands that his friend has reported him to the authorities. In the forty-five years of exile, Alexander becomes a successful businessman and a rich man, and Arsen with the help of the state and the secret services that have recruited him becomes a tycoon and a powerful man who once owned the largest state-owned companies. Both live in fear of the day when they might one day meet again. And it will they meet on the day of Aleksadar's return to Macedonia when he was killed by order of the secret police his twin brother, who initiates his homecoming back home to protect the last part of the family.