Zoé and Volta set off from their isolated home village to attend university in Pristina. In the midst of social and political unrest, the two women discover a country in turmoil, searching for its identity on the brink of independence.

2007 in Kosovo, one year before independence. Zoe and Volta, both 20 years old, are fed up with stale tradition, stifling family life and colorless village life. Accordingly, they decide to go to Pristina, the capital. There, full of hope, they enroll at university. To their dismay what they encounter on the campus is turmoil rather than fulfillment. Zoe and Volta also bitterly discover that their worldviews are light years apart.—Guy Bellinger