Nik is seventeen and is in his last year at high school in northern Albania. After his school graduation he wants to open an internet café. He has recently fallen in love with a girl in his class of school. Nik’s sister Rudina is fifteen and she too has a clear idea of what she wants from life and dreams of attending university. But then their family becomes embroiled in a fight over ownership of some land and their father is accused of murder. All at once, Nik and Rudina find themselves drawn into a terrible vendetta. According to dictates of the Kanun, Albania’s centuries-old traditional laws, none of the family’s male members may leave the house. As long as their father is hiding in the mountains and Nik is prevented from showing his face in public, the family has to rely on Rudina who is now oblige to leave school and take over her father’s affairs.
