A road movie set in present day Bulgaria, a country remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a cab to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now wants its share of the action. At his wit's end, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward.

When small town factory worker Iva is revealed to be the first case of covid in rural Bulgaria, albeit not having left her town in years, she is faced with an entire community turned against her. As the death toll rises, her demonization spirals into a rabbit hole of revelations on the factory’s exploitation, the capitalization of Bulgaria and the machinery driving Europe itself.