Servia Film

A tough 13-year-old girl struggles to keep her emotions under control, whether concerning her missing dog or the boy she likes.

In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is intrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by ensuring the rights of fellow mine-worker families.

After the disruption of a minute of silence in honor of a fallen comrade in Ukraine, the High choir—made up of Lenin statues across the world—kicks out its northernmost member: a Lenin bust situated in an abandoned Soviet mining settlement in Svalbard. Devastated by this action, the lonely bust is in for yet another upset when a dog wanders into town.

In the copper mine of the industrial town Bor in Eastern Serbia, miners have been melting copper in the same manner for more than a century.