The main subject of the Bosnian folk tale “The Golden Apple and Nine Peacocks” is love between two young people. But it is not any kind of love, but the true one, pure in which both sides are ready for various renunciations and concessions, just to be with their loved one.

In NATO-occupied Kosovo, a little girl writes an essay for the United Nations about her father who has gone missing. Meanwhile, the girl's grandfather becomes increasingly paranoid of the unseen threats that lurk in the dark.