Dan Grabnar

Petar feels stuck in the stillness of the summer countryside, as life—and his estranged cousin—seem to move forward without him.

The Batrovci border crossing is known for its seemingly endless line of trucks, which feels like an unchanging constant. People come and go, cargo crosses borders, but the line remains. Truck drivers spend days, even weeks, confined to their cabins, waiting for time to pass.

Milutin and Mica returned, after forty years, to the school in Orlja Glava where they had begun their teaching careers. The crumbling walls and dim shadows inside the building stirred memories of former students, as well as a way of teaching that seems to have vanished forever.