A Common Cause

The work of "Free Vojvodina", a printing office located at the Danube shore that worked illegally all through the WWII without being discovered by occupying authorities.

Major Scobie is a British official in a West African colony during WWII. Both he and his wife are devout Catholics, and thoroughly unhappy. After he starts an affair with a young girl and breaks the law to hide it, he's consumed by guilt.

The day before the start of the war, a traveling circus troupe performs in Latvia, in a small provincial town. The wife of Andrey Belov, who heads the big top, performs a difficult death number under the dome. Suddenly, Elsa meets the eyes of a little girl sitting in the auditorium. The balancing act loses its balance and falls down like a stone.