The father is unemployed. His son is sick. It is cold outside.

For the first time in Albania, a new law allows sex for married couples inside a prison in Tirana. Once a month, Elsa embarks on a long bus trip to visit her husband behind bars for gambling debts. Shpetim shares this monthly event: his wife has been locked up as well. Elsa and Shpetim get to know each other from their prison visits. They talk a little each month, and it seems possible that they could offer each other the affection and consolation which both are sorely missing in their lives. At least until an amnesty unexpectedly sets their respective partners free.

In 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway prison in order to bring an important dissident back to the capital.

1958, Albania: An arranged marriage forces Luana to deny her love for Agim. To meet her father’s expectations, she almost sacrifices her love, when she realizes that the KANUN is to the benefit of men only. She has to become one of them – A man.