Iva Šarić

Branimir is an anxious young man who works as a theater ticket taker. When he witnesses an act he should not have seen, he nervously starts to grind his teeth. Suddenly and bloodily, something stirs in him and Branimir frantically tries to push it back.

The story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of the final downfall of the Republic of Dubrovnik thus also becomes the story of the agony of an ancient aristocratic family.