Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un village à la frontière italo-yougoslave est divisé en deux parties, italienne d'un côté, yougoslave de l'autre...Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white line of demarcation splits the town in half and the townspeople are given just a short time to decides on which side of the line they will live. This leads to the dividing of homes, friends, families and the church and tensions run high.