Barbora Berezňáková

The still unexplained murder of former police officer Robert Remiáš in 1996, which appears to have involved the Slovak secret service at the behest of those in the highest places, remains a major blemish on the young Slovak democracy. The year before, the state directed the kidnapping of the son of the Slovak president, with whom the then Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar had a dispute. And Remiáš, who was the only witness to the kidnapping, became inconvenient...

The documentary is a continuation of the film on the events of August 1968 and presents the history told through individual testimonies and experiences. It is a diverse reflection on the transformation of society, its connection to the previously closed world around it, and getting used to the newly acquired rights and freedoms. It does not focus on the stories of faces familiar from the revolutionary tribunes, but on the small-scale reliving of small personal histories in the context of great social changes with the distance of 30 years of living in freedom.