Vule Žurić

A woman is in front of a tribunal and pleads about her case, but her assigned defendant lawyer hasn't showed up. She is also hiccupping since her husband died in a war. The trial gets more absurd as new characters come into play.

The film follows the celebrated writer and Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during WWII, when diplomats and diplomatic staff from Yugoslav missions from countries occupied by the Third Reich, including Andrić, who was ambassador of the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Berlin, were deported to a hotel on Lake Constance.

A woman is in front of a tribunal and pleads about her case, but her assigned defendant lawyer hasn't showed up. She is also hiccupping since her husband died in a war. The trial gets more absurd as new characters come into play.

The story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Kočić spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade, Kosta Herman, finds out that Kočić is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.