A city looks for a future in history – Macedonia is inventing itself as a nation with historical status based on a model of antiquity that never existed in that form. A government plan costing several hundred million euros is creating a brand new, ancient city center: a project called ”Skopje 2014“. Like this four-act operatic essay film, everything here is BIGGER THAN LIFE. We can follow in real time how history is made, how antiquity is constructed, how historical singularities are manufactured via mimicry, and how the boundary between truth and falsification becomes blurred by megalomaniac ideas.