After the death of her father, an idealistic patriarch of their secluded home in wilderness, Seka, a principled forty-year-old woman, realizes that the rest of her family doesn\’t think that their home must remain as isolated from the people as before. The relations get tense when her mother Eva (60) decides to reveal to her a long-kept family secret. Almost half a century ago, during their city life, Seka\’s father, an activist and a participant of 1968 protests, had killed a man. It happened one evening in the park. The man was beating his dog. Sober-minded Eva decided afterwards it was the right moment for them to do something they\’ve dreamt about for a long time – to move away from the city to the wilderness and to live off the land.

Seka realizes that the world she believed in was not based on the idea of freedom, but on the escape. Her world is threatened and she puts down the rifle she was ready to use in order to protect her home just a moment ago. Her attempts to connect with people for the first time in her life are fettered by fear, deeply rooted distrust and years of father’s lectures about greedy and selfish outside world. There is only one seemingly successful result of Seka\’s opening to the world: a contact with one-armed Contractor, who is one of the workers on the road construction site nearby. The tension between the two worlds grows bigger as the big celebration of the new road begins, bringing a lot of visitors to their area.

While Seka is looking for her lost nieces, she has a first romantic contact with the Constructor. The culmination comes with the daybreak, as Seka\’s beloved niece is hit by dynamite detonation used for illegal fishing while diving in the lake. Angry Seka takes the rifle in her hands once again, she goes after the responsible – only to discover that it is actually – one armed contractor. Seka pulls the trigger, repeating her father’s deed and shooting the first person she ever trusted outside of their utopia. She decides to leave the only home she has ever known.