[3][4] It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

[5][6][7] The film takes place in Bulgaria by the Rhodope Mountains, near the Turkish border.

He drives a milk tanker but business is slow, so he reluctantly accepts a job smuggling migrants over the border into Bulgaria.

(A character in the film describes the migrants as "Gypsies, Arabs, and blacks"; many of them are presumably Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.

[8]) The work reminds Mityo of his military service in the late 1980s, assigned to the Bulgarian border guard, where his task was to prevent citizens from leaving the Eastern Bloc.