On 10th November, 1979 Boryana is living in communist Bulgaria longing to escape to the West and determined not to give birth to a child in that country, in that system. Despite her attempt to prevent it, her baby comes into world...Unwanted, Viktoria is born with no umbilical cord to connect her to her mother and thus proclaimed “the baby of the decade”. Viktoria becomes a symbol of communist Bulgaria. While growing up, she dominates her environment and is at subconscious war with her mother. On 10th November, 1989 the communism collapse, turning Viktoria’s life upside down, the hardships of the new time bind her and her mother together for good.
Selected for the Script & Pitch Workshops, the Balkan Fund, the Berlinale Talent Project Market, the NIPKOW Programm and the EKRAN Programme of Andrzej Wajda's Master School of Film Directing Supported by the Media Programme, Vienna Film Fund, Bulgarian National Film Center. |