El camino de las hormigas

Five domestic stories, five characters, and their families. Small stories that magnify their small ambitions, pettiness, hope, and discouragement, which for each of them are moving, definitive and tragic.

Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.

Coco reaches her drama class at the last moment. Allowed to take her seat on stage, she embarks a trip into her past for a very special sensory meeting.

The film is a true story on the life of the Kocho Topencharov, who after 40 years spent in Albania, returns in his fatherland – Macedonia, with his wife and children. The story begins in Ohrid, when Kocho falls in love with Maria. In 1950, she returns in Albania, where her family lived. In 1950, Kocho illegally crosses the state border of Albania to find his love. But, the birocracy of Albanian state consider him as a spy and he spends many years in jail. Later, he is released, but he is not allowed to return to Macedonia. He marries Maria in Albania… This is a film about his love & life story.