In 1913, Macedonia was severed into three parts. The tragic fate of the country cruelly marked the life of Katerina, an ordinary woman from the town of Prilep. Katerina tells her story to a television director from Skopje. When she was born, her father--a Communist--was imprisoned in Serbia. A Serbian teacher abused her for refusing to write using the Serbian alphabet. She lived through Bulgarization and German occupation. Then Tito and Stalin become objects of forced adoration. Katerina fell in love with a soldier named Istvan, a Hungarian from Szabadka. When Communist zealots suggest that Istvan recruited Katerina to be a foreign agent, she is sent to a labor camp for four years. After Stalin dies, the prisoners are released. Now in her 70s, Katerina has never before spoken about her past. The long repressed history she shares with the filmmakers sparks fear in the local power elite.