In 1945 Bulgaria, the brutal dawn of the communist regime upends the life of Kalina, a refined young Bulgarian woman happily married to Enriko, an Italian anti-fascist who chose to live in Bulgaria. Their peaceful life is instantly shattered when the newly formed State Security targets Enriko as a suspicious foreign element, throwing him into a harsh labor camp. Desperate to save her husband from certain death, Kalina seeks out Metodi Stoev, the ruthless, fanatical State Security officer handling the case. Metodi leverages his absolute power, offering Enriko's freedom and safe passage back to Italy on one horrifying condition: Kalina must submit to him entirely. Trapped in a modern-day tragedy, Kalina sacrifices her dignity and enters a dark, manipulative relationship with her oppressor to buy her husband's life, showing the devastating human cost when a totalitarian state burns out everything intimate and pure.