The second part of a trilogy on modernism and the nation-state in European history, the film looks at the former country of Czechoslovakia and the building of a ‘new nation’ architectural style in cities such as Brno and Bratislava. It focuses on the history of Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe, and how it became a symbol of the former country’s history and its separation into two after the fall of communism. Through a precise narrative thread, and discrete yet resonant montage cuts, the film delineates, with sophisticated simplicity, one of the puncta in Europe’s historical destiny.