在马其顿,战争中的波斯尼亚,东正教的一位年轻修士以沉默保护一位年轻女孩,这位阿尔巴尼亚女孩涉嫌杀害一位东正教徒。但其实只是误会。修士以自己的善良决定与女孩私奔。 在伦敦,一位摄影记者(凯特琳·卡特利吉 Katrin Cartlidge 饰)在餐馆与她的丈夫谈论感情变淡的问题,二人争吵激烈之时,一名种族主义者冲入餐馆开枪扫射。爱,在生死之间突然变得清晰。 一位离开好友的摄影记者(拉德·舍博德兹加 Rade Serbedzija 饰)从伦敦出发,回到16年没来的老家马其顿。这里有他的老朋友,他的东正教朋友们,还有与阿尔巴尼亚人的种族矛盾。摄影记者尝试通过和解的方式化解纷争,但是,这一切远没有他想象的那么简单。 “圆圈不是一个圆。”三段相互交错的故事,不同文化、宗教、民族的误会造成的悲剧。The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Republic of Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16 years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend them.