Bulgarian Cinema in Sydney

Everybody is hopping on a plane, bus, train or car and heading for a seaside vacation! Not all of them, actually, because two of the main characters live there and own a small family hotel. Todor, an ex-waiter, is Bulgarian and his wife Totka, an ex-athlete, is Russian. Their first guests are two older women, Veska and Stefka, who are friends despite having completely different views on life. Next arrives the well-off and seemingly happy family of Anton and Lilly with a little girl called Maya. Charming Ani and her boyfriend Niky, a hopeless dreamer, occupy one more room. The couple seems to be in love, at least at the outset of the story. There is also a man called Mladen, a clandestine lover of the married Lilly.

The seaside vacation turns out to be a catalyst that changes the lives and relations of our characters. Breaking out of the…