When a handsome young biology teacher, Andre, arrives in a small mountain
village from Tirane, he has no idea how central the slogans set up around
town are to local politics. The young teacher realizes quickly that the
principal activity of each class, and for both teacher and pupil, consists
of bringing technical assistance to the installation of slogans dictated by the
consulting professors. These slogans, made up of stones and painfully
aligned bricks from the mountainside, are used to promote the ideology of
the Communist Party. Pretty soon he is embroiled in a series of incidents
which move fluidly between comedy and tragedy.