Ivana Pančić

A story about a 19-year-old girl Manja who, after her parents' divorce, moved with her mother from Zrenjanin to Novi Sad. Manja is in conflict with everyone, from her sister and mother to the new town where she has acquired a single friend, Slonče. He has a band and is hopelessly in love with Manja which she doesn't notice. She did not enroll in college, so she is looking for a job, after being fired from a beauty salon. After finding a new job in the delivery service, Manja also meets Daniel, who is 15 years her senior.

A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time