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This story of love and separation takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania. As told by survivors of this extraordinary period, this film reveals the experience of many thousands of families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hodja, the longest-serving European dictator of the 20th century. In 1961, Enver Hodja broke off Albania's relations with the Soviet Union. Albanian men married to foreign women were forced by the state to split from their wives – women from all over Eastern Europe – who were subsequently expelled. The official reason was alleged espionage. Hodja quickly created a mechanism to deal with those who refused to leave. KGB–trained secret police collected "evidence", minor clerks became "investigators", carpenters were made into prosecutors and labor camps expanded. The women who stayed - and their husbands - spent years in prisons, the last released in 1987. This film tells the stories of three of these couples, and of the apparatchiks and officers of the secret police who changed their lives forever.

Bulgaria - 2007 - 1 h 06 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Adela Peeva Writer Adela Peeva Camera Joro Nedelkov Sound Ivaylo Yanev, Michal Pruski Editing Jelio Jelev, Diana Zaharieva Music Fatos Qerimaj

Production Adela Media Film & Tv productions, 3, Babuna Planina Street, 1164 Sofia, Bulgarie Tél : +359 2 862 6572 Fax : +359 2 962 4789 E-mail : adelamedia@adelamedia.net Co-Production WestDeutscher Rundfunk, Bulgarian National Television, Film Studio Kalejdiscop

Sales Adela Media Film & Tv productions, 3, Babuna Planina Street, 1164 Sofia, Bulgarie Tél : +359 2 862 6572 Fax : +359 2 962 4789 E-mail : adelamedia@adelamedia.net