A love story told in three parts--linked by characters and events which alternate between contemporary London and Macedonia, in the former Yugoslavia. In the first section, a young Greek Orthodox monk hides an Albanian girl from her enemies; the second segment follows a London photo-agency employee torn between a Pulitizer Prize-winning war photographer and her husband; the last segment follows the photographer as he returns to his native Macedonian village, intent upon forgetting the horrors of war, only to discover that a fierce anti-Muslim ethnic hatred has already infected the once-peaceful Christian villagers.