Anger with a New Address
A law professor from Banja Luka spends ten days lecturing on ethics. Meanwhile his wife finds the young housekeeper crying on the bathroom floor.
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A law professor from Banja Luka spends ten days lecturing on ethics. Meanwhile his wife finds the young housekeeper crying on the bathroom floor.
In the July heat an architect keeps seeing a man in a black suit around Sarajevo. When the stranger finally rings at three a.m., he brings news from Travnik.
On his fiftieth birthday a Sarajevo actor gets a thick envelope with no return address. He has no memory of its author. She remembered him all her life.
Every Saturday the mayor of Stolac buys flour he does not need, just to see the miller's wife. One rainy night he decides that flour is no longer enough.
Snowed in at Lukomir, a surveyor spends the night with an old shepherd and his wife, who speaks as if she left Bistrik yesterday and asks about an old linden.
A month after marrying a colonel, Marina drives down Banj brdo at night and quietly tells the doctor she grew up with why she really married.
While Hasan lies in the hospital after a wildfire above Ljubuški, his wife does not come. His sister knows what no one else knows, and keeps silent for years.
To get her brother out of custody, Mersija agrees to four dinners on the same Friday with four powerful men, and orders a special wardrobe from a carpenter.
Half a century later, Halida returns from Stuttgart to Sarajevo with her grandmother's copper jug, and one evening she goes down to Bembaša for water after all.
When a childhood friend invites him to his fish farm near Kostela, Arnes does not know he will find at the table the girl he once promised to tell something.
For forty years Raza came to Goražde every Thursday to mend umbrellas and shoes, and to buy something she did not need at the pharmacy.
On the night train to Ploče, a gray-haired man by the window tells a fellow passenger how a violin and a sonata tore his marriage apart.
Two months after the wedding, Lejsa leaves her husband and rents a room in Tuzla. It is not him, she says, it is marriage, and he decides not to fetch her.
A critic who trusts neither women nor guesthouses checks in with a Mostar owner two men are already courting. She bets she can change him in three nights.
For her husband's fiftieth birthday in Trebinje, Radmila puts together a slideshow of fifty pictures. She made the last six just for him.
A young German teacher comes to a stone house above Travnik to tutor a girl, and on the first Sunday of every month the girl's father leaves before dawn.
Alem is twenty thousand marks short of a wedding. In his photographer friend's studio, he gives his last twenty to an old beggar who is posing.
The day after the funeral, the relatives of wealthy Bajro Kajtaz move into his stone house in Mostar and start listing everything, from rugs to spoons.
Under the wiper of his Golf on Bjelašnica, Ramo finds a love note and an invitation to the old gazebo at ten. By evening he has shaved twice.
Nevzad is sure of his wife, but that is not enough for him. So he gives his best man Vlatko the spare key to the apartment and asks him to try to win her.
When a new singer at a café above the Sokoluša makes the respected men of Gračanica forget their homes, their wives decide she must be married off.
While Omer lies in a hospital in Munich, his mother holds his phone and reads Merima's messages. Back in Visoko, an engagement to another awaits him.
After twelve years in Canada, Sinan comes home to his village near Bihać for his sister's wedding and finds the girl he loved married to his brother.
After her father dies, Jovanka marries his best friend, a calm man with a vineyard, and then begins to want everything that calm cannot give her.
After twenty years of silence, her first love sends Sanida a message, and for the first time she starts lying to her husband about her evenings.
All of Jablanica knows about brave Mursel's medal above our restaurant's register. Then a woman from Montenegro says what is written on the back of it.
One lost phone by the Crooked Bridge, one photo of an unknown young man and one July afternoon, and four people in Mostar are sure they have been betrayed.
In a Vienna restaurant a builder bets that his wife is faithful, and within two months his rival brings photos of their bedroom and her grandmother's bracelet.
A Sarajevo widower places a newspaper ad for the woman he danced with in the Olympic winter of 1984. He never made it to their date the next day.
Sumejra has a packed bag, a contract for a job on a ship and a man waiting for her at the port of Split. All she has to do is walk out of her father's house.