The protagonist of the story is a place of calmness, purity and serenity: an ancient shrine on an islet, dedicated to Our Lady. It is facing a strange antagonist: speed, tumult, superficiality, and vanity of the modern era. Heavenly vs. mundane, temporarily vs. eternal, material versus spiritual…
Once a year in the small coastal town of Perast, Montenegro, one out of many cocks in the region participates in a very particular event. Being the chosen one, he will face unexpected experiences. This is the story of his life in the environment of human rules and rites.
In a remote mountainous region an ancient tool for igniting the fire, an ognjilo is still being used by a highlander. As his days, months and seasons go by in a slow pace, a piece of his land is being settled by an odd metal neighbor. The electricity arrived to the region! Or – only traversed it…? The highlander’s environment has been changed. Will this change touch his life too!?
An arable field barely a small room size, mountainous grass sprouting between the stones, a wild pear tree all grown with brush-wood but still so apposite to be engraft, water appearing from the very rocks, a colony of bees fugitives settled into an oak-tree cavity, connection with the world from a high top – all this means the life, all this is a miracle of the life, all this seems to be a God blessed gift in the harsh karst of Montenegro.
