The horrors and sufferings of the Macedonian capital during World War II are shown through the eyes of 11-year-old Zoran. The city is under German and Bulgarian occupation, his beloved father is fighting with the partisans and he and his beautiful mother share a roof with his constantly bickering aunt and uncle and the women's ailing mother.

Zoran sees his Jewish friend Renata Rossman and her family deported to a concentration camp. He spies on local partisans as they execute collaborators. His uncle is brutalized by the police. But what turns out to be Zoran's biggest trauma is his mother's affair with the Nazi officer installed in the expropriated Rossman home, who insists that she become his housekeeper.

Renowned stage and screen veteran Rade Šerbedžija (Sparrows) and his son Danilo co-direct this epic adaptation of a theater play by Dušan Jovanović. Both Šerbedžijas acted in the original 1980 stage production. 

Danilo Šerbedžija – Director