改编自真实事件。1983年，当时的格鲁吉亚还是苏联加盟共和国。两个出身精英家庭的年轻人尼卡和安娜正在紧张地准备他们的婚礼。然而，对于他们两人和前来的朋友来说，这样一个盛大的婚礼事实上是只是他们计划的一部分——他们正在策划着从苏联逃跑。就在婚礼结束后的第二天，这群年轻人开始了他们最疯狂的计划：劫持一架当地从第比利斯飞往巴统的航班，迫使它降落在土耳其境内，这样就能来到不属于东区的国家。但随着飞机缓缓离开地平线，一切似乎都渐渐失去了掌控

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.