Logline

While women in the village are preparing for the Midsummer celebration, two young girls investigate fragments of intriguing events by spying on an teenage girl order to discover if her secret boyfriend is actually a vampire.

Synopsis

Summer of 2004. Sara (8), comes from the city to her grandma’s (66) in the village in hills in Western Serbia where she spends time hanging out with a local, Vesna (10), who introduces her to all the secrets of life which she learns mostly through fragments from the life of her older sister Anica (17). Two of them wander around the village observing the locals, their rituals and their conversations imbued with mythical thinking and superstition. At night, they secretly follow Anica who is seeing a mysterious guy from another village. Influenced by the stories told by old women from the village, Sara starts to suspect Anica’s boyfriend might actually be a vampire. Drawn by the hypnotazing aura of their secret meetings and unable to sleep that night, she decides to take the investigation further without Vesna. Instead of solving the mystery, she will find fear and allure finally colliding inside herself and find acceptance in the unexplainable…In the morning, at the river, the entire village bathes as part of a Midsummer celebration – a village ritual connected with change of the season. Surrounded by all of the women from the village, the young and the old, Sara undresses, mesmerized; as she enters the river, she takes a small step toward her future adulthood.

Director’s Statement

W hy do I think this film deserves to be filmed?
Because it deals with discovery of sexualty from the first hand angle of an eight-year-old girl and shows the intensity and speed with which the experience of the world changes at that age. Because, in addition to the distinctly childlike perspective that is in the foreground, we also see some of the attitudes towards the same topic from the point of view of three women of different ages (Vesna, Anica and Nana). Because, by the way, it touches on the influence of society in the acquisition of knowledge and values in children. The film should remind you of the excitement that is felt when various things are still incomprehensible and are revealed for the first time.