The Heart Dies Last

A young journalist comes across interesting report material: talented marine engineer Maria died while on duty. Her story turns out to be quite a puzzle though - people who knew her are not willing to share much. Trying to make them speak, the journalist presents himself as her son. He hopes to dig up the truth about her and spares no effort, ending up at the bureau for investigation. The report he's writing never gets published but his belief system certainly gets challenged.

1945. Among the rubble from the Sofia bombardment a group of kids with the oldest one being 12, make secret plans for a sea voyage. As it should be done, the plans are devised in a gloomy basement of a destroyed building. The vow "Silence to the death" is said. The main source of the kids is the diary "Magellan". At the same time the kids start to collect donation for the wounded at the front. One day, the money collected by the kids disappears. After numerous doubts and uncertainties, it turns out that the kids do not stole the money. The journey happens in their dreams.

Archival footage of the 40s of the 20th century alternates with the narrative of the main character. He received his military service as an internal intelligence courier. The hero recalls the Inquisition of the arrested, who were interrogated in the building at the address "Tetevenska" 24. The film is a portrait of a little man caught in the twists and turns of history. The hero is torn between the pain of his memories and the need to expose them to the ideological canons of the 80s. For the background of this drama, the impassive faces of today's residents of this house are very far from what ever happened in it. —Georgi Djulgerov