Storyline

On his deathbed, Lem (Meto Jovanovski) thinks back to his childhood in a post-World War II Stalinist "reeducation" camp, where the children of parents unwilling to embrace the new realities of Yugoslavia are taught the ways of the communist future. The young Lem (Saso Kekenovski) befriends a boy named Isak (Maja Stankovska), and they survive under the stern but compassionate tutelage of headmaster Ariton (Mitko Apostolovski) and the more brutal ways of his assistant, Olivera (Verica Nedeska).

Plot Keywords

headmaster, assistant, politician, young boy, best friend, old man, moving, intense, endearing, somber, hospital, reeducation camp, classroom, yugoslavia, factory, friendship, brainwashing, death, childhood trauma, growing up, transformation, wretched excess, 1940s

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