Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a bartender and bass guitar player originally from Albania. They become lovers. Confronted by his girlfriend Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street....

Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

A man struggling under the crushing weight of debt must work as a tax collector to pay off his creditors.

A story that sees love and pay sex mix, crime and hope, tragic and comic, forming a variegated mosaic in which the periphery is a monstrous giant stranded on the edge of a large city.

On September 21, 2014 Pope Francis chose Albania for his first European visit to "a country that has long suffered the ideologies of the past". His voyage from Rome to Tirana lasts 50 years...