At Home With Dead

Bratislav Stojkovic is forced by the circumstances to live in a grave. With a thin pink quilt pulled around his shoulders and three rusty metal coffins to keep him company, he’is spending nights inside of a tomb at a long-forgotten municipal cemetery in the southern Serbian city of Nis. He is not afraid of the dead; their souls are where they should be, either in hell or in heaven, while their bones bother no one now. The grave is his refuge from the rain, snow, and human cruelty. Branko talks about his childhood, devastated family and his own failed marriage and on the ashes of the burnt house where his father was killed bravely examines his past. He seeks an answer to the question why he has to share his home with the dead. Branko finds consolation in a hopeless present, seeking consolation in a gray future that still roams his thoughts.