A handsome young teacher named Andre arrives at a mountain village where he′s to be a new teacher at a local elementary school. Under the tight rule of the school Principal, Andre is surprised to discover that the only item on his first faculty meeting agenda is assignment of a political slogan for each class. In a physically demanding task, the teachers and young students must form the letters with rocks on neighboring hillsides. This "political duty" dictates life in the village towards ironic and unexpected results. Among them, a love story between Andre and pretty French teacher, Diana. Under the paranoid probing eyes of the local Party Secretary, the simplest rumors and rivalries of the quaint village become comically misinterpreted. With preparations underway for the upcoming arrival of an important party dignitary, the absurd reality of life under the late 1970s Albanian dictatorship shows its true face.