Documentary feature film focusing on the life and career of Bajrush Mjaku, a ground-breaking actor who was active and still inspiring the Theaters in Balkans and worldwide. A superstar in the art world, but little known outside the theaters professionals and audiences, why does Bajrus Mjaku continue to excite passions? This brilliant, gifted and visionary actor, father and grandfather give us his story overlapping some half of the century of professional success and dedication to his family, through most hard times to represents his Albanian culture. Always keeping his family together, always make audiences applause, smile and cry to his performance on the scene. His mission is Acting, and his Acting is the mission.
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
Five centuries of persecution and the struggle of the Macedonian people for freedom and an independent Macedonian state in which freedom will reign equally for all, have created their own myth and tradition for themselves. The struggles, sufferings, betrayals and self-sacrifice were later translated and woven through Macedonian songs, stories, tales and plays. Starting from there, this TV movie approaches the events of that time.