A moving picture in which art and war blur boundaries.
After twenty-three years of marriage, Aram the painter and Arous the dancer travel to Nagorno-Karabakh, on the border of their country, to make a choice: start all over again with the enemy, or stay in Armenia and continue their lives on their own. As they make their way along the road, they find the lifeless bodies of two children, an Armenian boy and an Azerbaijani girl, a sight that will rekindle their inner storms. To tell the story of these young victims, these new Romeo and Juliet, Hovik Afyan takes us on a whirlwind tour of horrifying drama, improbable pigments and salvific dances.
Published one month after the end of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war, this story—a story of dreams and suffering—is the story of people whose struggle never ends.