In the middle of the chaotic 1999 Kosovo war, Mario, an Italian priest, refuses to abandon a dozen Albanian orphans in his care. Across the Adriatic Sea, the soulful and attractive Hana, leaves her life as a prostitute and makes her way across the Balkan battle zone in the hopes of finding her missing daughter. When Hana finally arrives at Mario’s orphanage, she ends up becoming a mother for the troubled children, as an unlikely attraction grows between her and the Italian man of God.