SYNOPSIS

Seven-year-old Matija is inexplicably linked to a series of suicides in the small village where he grew up. The first was his own father. Thirty years later, he has repressed the trauma by erasing an entire year of his life from his memory. He is now a successful playwright. In his work, he deals with events he believes to be memories but he discovers they are fictional interpretations of his forgotten past. In conversations with his mother and sister, he reconstructs the missing parts of his life, but their stories are incomplete and subjective. The picture becomes complete only when he manages to see his childhood through the eyes of a child. He remembers two imaginary friends, little demons, on whom he blamed both his father's death and his own violent outbursts. As a child, he failed to defeat them, so in the dramatic ending, as an adult, he will face them again. Past and present merge, and the child Matija saves the adult Matija, symbolically redeeming himself for all the guilt he has carried for years.