It's 1885, and Raina's bourgeois Bulgarian family is caught up in the heady patriotism of the war with Serbia. Raina eagerly awaits her fiancé's victorious return from battle - but instead meets a soldier who seeks asylum in her bedroom. This soldier definitely prefers romance and chocolate to fear and bullets. The battle of the sexes that heats up this extraordinary comedy and offers very different notions of love and war.