前洛杉矶警察布雷特在保加利亚首都索非亚，担任一栋旧公寓大楼的安保主管。布雷特很快发现了一股邪恶力量，打开了冥界与人类世界的大门……

　　传说中，鹈鹕会啄破自己的胸膛，用鲜血滋养饥饿的幼鸟。身为驯马师的母亲领养了孤儿拉雅，谁料拉雅因从小心灵受到重创，无法像常人一样感知亲情，时而出现过激举动，让母亲和姐姐十分困扰。在自己和养女之间，母亲做出了无私的决定。来自女性导演的作品以悬疑、惊悚类型片的方式探索母性这一永恒的话题。

In a remote Bulgarian town, Gana looks after the elderly with dementia, while trafficking their ID cards on the black market of identity theft. At home, she provides for her jobless mother, with whom she hardly speaks. Her relationship with her car-mechanic boyfriend is no shelter for love either - with sexual attraction vanished, intimacy is reduced to an addiction to morphine, and sharing silence. Nothing seems to have consequences on Gana's conscience, even the incidental murder of a patient, who threatens to expose her fraudulent dealings. Things start to shake up, when Gana hears the music of Yoan, a new patient, whose ID card she has trafficked. A growing empathy for the old man unlocks the nurse's drugged-up conscience, and she is ready for change. But when Yoan is arrested for fraud, Gana learns that doing 'the right thing' comes at a high price

《小镇风云》是一部有关友谊的电影，不论历史事件如何跌宕起伏，友谊的故事总能历久弥新。电影中，有三个年轻人，萨拉沃奇、伊芙琳娜和与他们岁数相仿的德国青年威利，他们都在二战期间于巴拉科沃一个村庄的学校读书。在那里，三人第一次相遇了。一辆摩托车成了他们长久友谊的基石。萨拉沃奇依然居住在那里，威利加入了德国军队，而伊芙琳娜被从索非亚驱逐，她的房子也被英国和美国的炸弹炸毁。电影根据发生在保加利亚小村庄巴拉科沃的历史事件改编，而那里也因为一对富有的兄弟所开的巨大的造纸厂而闻名。