After forty-five years of emigration to Canada, Alexander returns to Macedonia, to his hometown of Skopje. In 1977, he is seventeen years old and Macedonia is part of communist Yugoslavia. Alexander and his childhood best friend, raised in anti-communist families, decide in high school where they learn to spread leaflets against the communist party and the state. The day they have to do it, Arsen will not appear. Alexander will distribute the leaflets himself and will be arrested.