COLD is based on three stories, set in wintertime in a small, backwater village in the Trun area. The Trun area is quite specific with its colourful local population, the hot temper and the inimitable dialect of the local people. The climate there is tough, and so are the locals. However, they'd help each other and be quite human in difficult times. The stories in COLD are set in different periods. Most of the characters are different in the individual stories, yet certain odd elements are present in all of them. Such a common element is the intimate atmosphere around the kyumbe (stove) in the village pub, but also the challenges the people are facing provoked by the big cold. This cold would even make the stars shiver. The Trun area provoked me partly because my family came from the place and because of the long periods in my childhood, which I spent in the rocky hills over there, listening to colourful, magical stories and legends. Quite naturally, DESTINY OF A BUM (2021), the documentary I recently completed, is about those places. While shooting it, I had the chance to spend much time among the local people, immersed in their peculiar culture and world perceptions. And years ago, I read Bone Rusinov's Fiery Dance compilation of short stories, and they provoked the idea to start this feature project. My mother, scriptwriter Iliana Kitanova, used to tell me about her childhood. She, too, used to spend the school holidays in our family house in Trun and remembers that the people still living there never spoke to their neighbours. COLD is a project loaded with feelings for those times that will never return. It is an attempt to get in touch with the world of my parents, my grandparents, to try to fathom their views of the world.