





A powerful bora windstorm strikes the Croatian coast, cutting off a lighthouse on a small island in the Adriatic Sea. A Czech agency has rented the island to host a workshop called "Encountering Death" for Czech and Slovak participants. As the storm rages, the nine attendees discover that their workshop leader is dead - and that he was murdered.

A feature film depicting the critical 24 hours in the life of the famous Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela; intense and intimate personal drama of a young man, who, after years of dutiful representation of his totalitarian homeland longs to leave the golden cage of Czechoslovakia and become free. He wants to live and love without fear, that the revelation of his sexual orientation will make him a deviant and destroy everything he dedicated his life to. However, the regime strengthens its pressure on him in the moment of his highest vulnerability, using the dirtiest methods to make Ondrej conform to its cruel ultimatum.




Spring 1939. The bishop of Banska Bystrica learns that the Antichrist was born in the village of Piargy, which had been buried by an avalanche a few days earlier.



