Itzhak Finzi plays an aging patriarch struggling to come to terms with his mortality while the country around him is undergoing a political and economic upheaval. None of his family understands him - certainly not his materialistic son nor his aimless grandson attracted to the gang life. Sent to rot in a nursing home, the Old Man breaks loose and like the gypsies he befriends, wanders far and wide across Bulgaria, surveying the strange, new world taking shape.