Slobodan Novak

The usual atmosphere of a standard literary evening turns into a harsh drama of the conscience of the protagonist who took part in the betrayal and liquidation of his father in the World War II, which ended not so long ago.

A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.

In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the hundred year old Maddona Makantuna, a dispossessed land owner.

An ex-prostitute, now a washerwoman, asks for a pension for her previous "employment", which socialism, with its human principles, does not disapprove. To realize her right, she needs two witnesses, and she has many more. But none of them will testify. A whole society shows its selfishness, false morality, prejudice. She dies without realizing her great wish.

The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.

A famous cardiologist with an interest in the afterlife almost dies from a heart attack during a jogging session, but is saved from by a vision of a mysterious and beautiful woman whom he starts seeing everywhere he goes.