"Life passes like a shadow..." Ivan only remembers the first line of an old folk song once believed capable of resurrecting the dead. The young man used to sing it with his best friend Kamen, who now struggles to stay alive in an American hospital. Ivan feels that all he would like to express to his sick friend is in that song from their childhood. If only he could remember. When denied a visa to travel to Kamen, Ivan leaves to search for the song. With the camcorder Kamen gave him, Ivan begins to put together a video of the people he meets along the way. Led from one village to the next, Ivan gets a glimpse of quickly-disappearing Bulgarian lifestyles. A writer suffering from lack of inspiration, Ivan′s eyes are opened once again to the details of life that are too-often missed. He encounters many songs, but not the resurrection song.