A man, Nikola Vaptsarov was sentenced to death on 23 July 1942 by a field court marshal of the then Bulgarian puppet government. Surprisingly enough, the then Communist leaders in charge of Vaptsarov's activities and tried by the same court, got off with lighter sentences and in the wake of the upheaval of 1944 stood at the helm of this country. A decade later, the world got to know that the man executed in the hot summer of 1942 was the greatest of all the Bulgarian poets born in the twentieth century. And his nearest and dearest took to cashing in on his popularity.

影片是一个海边小镇索佐波尔，十瓶伏特加，一栋老房子和关乎于爱情的故事。影片讲述了关于爱情、十瓶伏特加和一个即将沉没小镇的故事。当希望尽失，奇迹是最后的选择。一个中年男人，回到索佐波尔的一个陈旧老房子里，打开了十瓶伏特加独自一人仰头痛饮。房子里保留着稀疏可数的过往痕迹，他尝试着一点点的找寻着逝去的回忆。他希望在十瓶伏特加喝完之后，会出现一点特别的奇迹。某日，在昔日的小镇上漫步的他遇见一个叫吉娜的女人，这个女人与他的前女友又有着或隐或现的联系。在十瓶伏特加即将饮尽的时候，曾经的女友回来了，并告诉他吉娜早已自杀。“索佐波尔的沉没”是影片最后的主题。

1917年。欧洲在世界大战的火焰中变得疯狂。尤为科夫是一名保加利亚军官，也是战争新闻报的记者，被派往铎布鲁迪加的前线。他有一个特殊的使命：为他最好的朋友送去他的订婚戒指。途中，他将会遇到几乎失明的克罗夫将军和一个为保受霍乱之苦的保加利亚士兵做祈祷的牧师，为他濒死的朋友合上双眼并在他未婚妻的家中过夜。正如他在记事本上记录下的一场，尤为科夫将承受所有这一切痛苦的回忆。 1917. Europe gone crazy is burning in the flames of the World War. A Bulgarian officer, the correspondent of the War News newspaper, is traveling to the Dobrudja front. His name is Yordan Yovkov. He has an unusual task to accomplish - to take an engagement ring to his best friend who has got married to a girl somewhere beyond the front line. Along his way he will meet almost blind General Kolev and the imam who makes crosses for the Bulgarian soldiers dying of cholera, he will close his dying friend's eyes and will stay the night at the home of his fiance. Together with the notepad he writes his experiences in, Yovkov will also carry the painful memories of whatever has happened. Written by Georgi Djulgerov {major1@mbox.contact.bg}