Penko Gospodinov

A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.

Assen explores rock monasteries in a Black Sea bay. He falls in love with Stella. For 11 years she has been waiting in vain for her missing lover. Asen reveals the truth about his death, but realizes that Stella would not be able to bear it. In order not to destroy Stella's fragile peace of mind, Asen leaves without saying anything to her.

The great Bulgarian football player Georgi Asparuhov and his greatest love - his wife Lita go through a number of trials of life, football and the political system.

After a lengthy virtual relationship over the Internet, Milena and Philip take the plunge and agree to finally meet. Having lived in Montreal for over a decade, Milena, an immigrant of Bulgarian descent, accepts to greet her correspondent Philip, a flirtatious photographer from Sofia. Out in an isolated cottage in Quebec's countryside, the couple abandon themselves to one another. Between periods of cultural clashes and fleshly pleasures, the two assess each other and the possibilities for true love. But strange, uncanny events soon disrupt Milena and Philip's quiet intimacy as secrecy and silence slowly set in -nihilproductions

A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to put a play that his thoughts are obsessed with. This play talks about people who are being constantly watched and are living in constant fear of punishment. Gradually, the nightmares of the play begin to move into the life of the troupe...

A puzzle of rules and fears that intertwine in both the past and the present. Oddballs often turn into problematic people, whereas the problematic turn out to be just oddballs.

A series of events brings the Bulgarian Fori to the Danube Delta. In the Ukrainian city of Vylkove, due to random tragic circumstances, Fori finds himself in custody. But in this town the hero meets true love, and the beauty and spiritual atmosphere of "Ukrainian Venice" gives him the feeling that this is the place he was looking for all his life.

The protagonist's earthly life seems fleeting and meaningless to him, which is why 50-year-old Forry prefers the starry sky - he is a passionate amateur astronomer. By a strange coincidence, he travels with his best friend Theo to the Danube delta and ends up in Vilkovo, a town in Ukraine where the Lipovans live. Here, Forry unwittingly commits a crime and ends up in jail, but it is in this strange town that true love finds him. Fate, however, always has other plans. Will there be punishment? And what will it be? Prosecution or conscience will be the harshest judge.