Set "somewhere in the Balkans" over the course of one day in 1995, in the waning but still volatile end of the war in Kosovo, a few humanitarian workers are on a mission to remove a dead and decaying corpse from a well that supplies most of the surrounding village with the water they so desperately need. However, they lack an adequate rope to haul the obese man's body up with, and no one around in the war-beaten land seems to be willing to risk their neck to help them. Meanwhile, the local United Nations forces are so stymied by their own bureaucratic rules and regulations that they sometimes act in opposition to the very people they are there to try to help.