Batko Stamenov, a student in communist-era Bulgaria whose entire life has been built on deception, creates his own ring of spies in this satirical black comedy. After being dismissed from the government’s espionage agency, Batko enlists the same radical student group he had infiltrated to become his own web of informants. Soon thereafter the group turns on itself, then on the government, and then on Batko. By film’s end the line between victim and villain becomes impossibly blurred.
