Meet Ela: a mother of three, a wife, a friend, and a career woman. To juggle it all, she is often economical with the truth, trying to get herself out of this or that mess. The lies are mostly little, white, and harmless. Every now and then, not so much.

About the dispute between the people of Ig over the cut plums on the border.

Nika Owen is a trainee lawyer. A beginner in the world of law. And an initiator in life. Through the mysterious death of Inspector Novak, the unraveling of secrets is triggered, leading her down the path of learning what is really going on in society. Her career is at stake, her friendship, her love. —tvprofil

Ivan Cankar experienced many things only after he has written about them. In the film, this link between his writing and his private life is depicted by live-action and animated scenes that draw exclusively on the writer’s works and letters to his loved ones. For an entire decade, he lived with the Löffler family in Vienna, where he wrote most of his impressive oeuvre. First, he grew very close to the lady of the house, then to her adolescent daughter Steffi. Back in Ljubljana, he got involved with several girls there, an attentive lover of a cheerful nature, accessible and highly intelligent. His popular public lectures reveal him as a passionate social democrat.

Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. A series of small debts triggers the swift domino effect that unleashes chaos on a well-meaning working class dad who has the bad judgment to speak truth to power.

A Slovenian story about how the successful transition from socialism, as well has its dark side; many factories were ruined, workers became unemployed, and those employed are very often victims of ruthless exploitation. When I learned about what women have to sacrifice in order to keep their jobs.