After the Dream

Based on a true story of a meeting in June 1945 between two powerful men with very opposite philosophies and perspectives on the future of their country.

Nova Gradiška, Eastern Croatian front, 1991. A group of high schoolers seeks comfort from the horrors and hopelessness of war in drugs and alcohol, but, in a desperate search to escape reality, they quickly turn to murder.

The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his families closest friends and neighbors turn on them purely because they are Croatian. Marijan is forced to witness and experience things an adult would have an incredibly difficult time dealing with. He is nevertheless faced with the inexplicably horrid events war brings out in people. The story centers on a present day Marijan- now the very successful owner of a wood manufacturing business. On one random day a man walks into his store and all of the memories he wishes he could long forget come flooding back, forcing him to relive them. Despite his immense hardships, Marijan lives on in forgiveness, always seeking the positives that lay in the future rather than rehashing and remaining in the past.

Horvatovi follows a blended family as children, teens, and parents navigate everyday misunderstandings, small life lessons, and generational clashes while adapting to the complexities of living together.