Besmir Bitraku

Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.

The lives and predicaments of the people living inside an Albanian castle during the war against the Otoman Empire in fifteenth century.