The narrative jumps forward to 2006, when Kamen, now a , returns home for his mother’s funeral. He meets Elena , a schoolteacher who has spent the last decade fighting bureaucratic obstacles to get the hillside designated as a public park. Their romance is intertwined with a political subplot : a local mayor, Petar Ganchev , wants the hill for a commercial complex that promises jobs but threatens the town’s historic landscape.

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