Miljenko Jergović

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

Tilen is a child of divorced parents who lives with his mother and grandmother. In order to reunite his family, he makes up the idea that his father is coming to visit and that he will take them to the zoo. Shocked, the mother prepares for an unexpected visit, but when it turns out that her son was lying, she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with Tilen and reconnect with him sincerely.

The story of Buick Riviera is told through fates of two men, both Bosnian (ex Yugoslavian) emigrants, belonging to the two different religious groups that fought for the city of Sarajevo during the War.