Igor Smajić, a literature professor at the University of Zagreb, often reads excerpts from the poem “Broken Burden” to his students, by the late writer Eugen Hrasnik. His assistant and friend, Slavko, initially jokes that his fondness for this particular poem is obviously connected to his own life situation. After all, Eugen Hrasnik's text deals with the guilt of a man who, in his thoughts, has dialogues with the woman he maimed and ruined under unclear circumstances. Gradually, through the film's plot, it is revealed that Igor is living in a situation similar to the poem's protagonist...