Communism comes to a small Yugoslav town in 1945. When the school burns down and classes are moved into the town church, the local Party leader insists—despite protests—that the church's icons be painted over. Soon the icons reappear through the whitewash, and the schoolteacher Lazarus, who died of injuries sustained in the fire, rises from the dead. Or maybe he didn't die at all? (From www.moma.org)