Simo Matavulj

The subject of the story is care and love of Vlajko, a lonely clerk, for an abandoned sick child. Through sacrifice, the main character finds the meaning of his monotonous life.

The protagonist is a young man, a future scientist, who plans his future life with mathematical precision, but the calculation betrays him.

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.

Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.

On her deathbed, the sister tries to help her brother who, burdened with his poor background, can't figure out his life's directions after completing studies.

This simple story shows how a spoiled girl from a rich Belgrade family at the beginning of the 20th century, despite her habits and upbringing, experienced a change and stepped into the real world on Easter, thanks to an unusual event, as well as her pure childish heart.

That first St. Nicholas day at the beginning of the new, twentieth century, gathers the heroes of this story and reveals their faces and characters. Who are they? Predators, conspirators, lovers and voluptuous, incompetent officials, careerists and servants of the regime.