The mighty wheels of bureaucracy grind to a halt in this, perhaps the world’s first ‘non-road’ movie. Corridor#8 was planned by the EU as an extraordinarily ambitious rail and road system linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania – neighbouring countries that should, logically, already have been connected. Ten years and millions of euros later, progress is scarcely visible. Despodov sets off along the potholed and haphazard Corridor#8, encountering blood feuds and intense neighbourly suspicion, ultimately finding that the road is doomed to take altogether unplanned directions.