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One night with a sex worker and two hotel employees who made him do the wrong thing, and Miro's life will be forever changed.

The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.

The archivist Fadili finds himself in a difficult situation, with an impossible choice of two options, fully aware that both of them are wrong. As a consequence of his decision Fadil involuntarily and unwillingly, has to swallow the shame.

Hannah, a shy sixteen, is invited by Balsha, the boy she secretly loves, to a lake trip to film a solar eclipse. But the next morning, her father, a former top pilot who even flew for NASA, dies. He wished to be buried in a spacesuit, but the family insists on a traditional funeral, overwhelming her mother. Frustrated by her mother's inability to confront them, Hannah runs away. At the lake, she realizes Balsha is not the kind boy she thought but an aggressive predator. Hannah has to fight on two fronts - at home, standing up to her family, and outside, for her own dignity. Hana needs to outgrow herself quickly, otherwise her future will be as dark as the darkness of a solar eclipse.