Brief history of Serbian history from the World War I
Ivan teaches history in a Belgrade high school. In his class, Ivan is provoked by a student and ends up slapping him on the face. In Serbia, in the heat of transitional changes, Ivan’s presence in school is no longer welcomed. He finds a temporary job opportunity in a war-scarred mountain village in Bosnia. On his way there, he meets Yasmina, a young Muslim woman, back from Germany to her homeland after the war and after being invited by an old friend – Hazim - who now runs a motel. A lone kiss in a stormy night, in a village still lying in ruins, will bring Yasmina and Ivan closer together in a joint escape from reality and to a ride on a dusty bus, where neither one of them wants to sit next to the window.
Based on personal experiences of the writer, it takes place in 1917 in the Serbian military hospital on the Thessaloniki front, where wounded and sick soldiers and officers open up many crucial discussions, while impatiently waiting for a general order to all allied forces for a joint breakthrough.
The famous Serbian painter Milena Pavlovic-Barili, author of the masterpiece "A girl with the lamp", spends her last summer accompanied by young, curious actress.
After the end of World War II, a young partisan falls in love with a German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her.
Two young men and a girl, going through all the dilemmas of their generation, live together and try to build different world, to find their place in society. The manner of their life, understanding of truth and justice, love and passion, gets each of them in conflict with environment, with people who want to change their relationship and fit them into accepted moral norms. They are giving in slowly, and their whole world changes. Some of them will fit the dull everyday's life, and some will find strength to resist.
An experimental TV movie based on the lives and work of Soviet avant-garde artists from the first half of the 20th century.