Behind the designation Corridor #8 looms a European Union project to build a highway from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. In the past 10 years, the ambitious roadbuilders have completed just 35 km of the route. In this travelogue recounting Despodov's comic and touching encounters along a road to nowhere lengthened by tortuous detours (324 km), he meets some truly incredible people as he crosses an area caught between past and future, but fascinating in its oddities, contradictions and endless problems.
