Ziba Radonchikj

15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

Three Macedonian women have to contend with control over their bodies, tradition, loyalty, pregnancy and adoption. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. The three bittersweet stories, one medieval, two contemporary, mirror and contrast one another, exploring themes of love, trust and motherhood.

A story of two delicate and beautiful women whose dreams have been destroyed by three brutal men, and of the women’s ultimate, liberating revenge.

Тwo real life stories of solved murders, one of which resulted in the last death sentence imposed in Yugoslavia, during the 1970s.