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An omnibus of ten short films by ten young directors.

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

Vele can’t afford to buy the expensive medications for his father who has cancer. Desperate, he steals marijuana from some criminals, makes a cake with it and gives it to his father, hoping it will reduce his pain. His father’s health miraculously improves, but Vele is suddenly confronted by neighbors who demand the recipe for the “remedial” cake and by the criminals who want their drugs back.

One dark night in the local cemetery, a gentle, wise boy, trying to prove to his elderly drunken neighbor that he is a man, receives his first lesson in the irony of life.

A landlady asks her tenant – a trumpeter who has an audition that day – seemingly innocent favor: to drop off her female friend and her little daughter in the city. The tenant is unwillingly involved in a series of dramatic events which fuel his creativity during the audition later that day.