Gordana Jovanović

Jovča is a respected and rich man in the 19th-century Vranje. He loves his daughter Vaska a little bit too much, so he does not let any of the suitors, even the best ones, approach her. Over time, she starts a relationship with a servant she grew up with.

The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.

A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a young boy.

A bizarre and tragic love story involving a pig farmer, the village fool, a teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.