Living emotional characters, brilliant performance in an original provoking adaptation of the classic Bulgarian short novel by Ivan Vazov. They are Bulgarian emigrants to Romania: proud and freedom-loving rather than desperate vagrants and drifters, scoundrels in the eyes of the narrow-minded, but heroes in the eyes of the oppressed and humiliated. They are outcasts, who would lay down their lives, struggling to liberate their compatriots. is the first Bulgarian four-series TV film filmed in high definition. It was conceived in 2005, after the success of the theatre performance of the same name, staged at the Bulgarian National Theatre. It is a modern interpretation of a literary classic.