When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.
Direction
Nola's hallucinatory staging of a disco-club command center.
Cinematography
The Neretva river sequences—liquid, liminal, unforgettable.
Writing
Nameless protagonist as absurdist holy fool in literal minefield.
Director
Lukas Nola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Croatian cinema's post-Yugoslav 'phantom limb'—films like this process Balkan identity through magical displacement rather than direct trauma.
Director Lukas Nola cast his own son Filip as Jakov, creating an actual father-son name exchange that mirrors the film's identity games.
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