Spring 2001... A civil war is raging in Macedonia...
Trendafil Karanfilov is fleeing his home-town to avoid joining the local army. Together with his wife Ruza he's hurriedly packing all sorts of goods (including her wicked mother Zumbula) into their family car, destination neighboring Bulgaria. But that spring of 2001 was incredibly hot... and the old granny Zumbula perishes due to the heat! Faced with the bureaucracy in a foreign land, with an old corpse that begins to rot, Trendafil decides to smuggle Zumbula's body back to Macedonia, wrapped up in a car pet. And so he has done... but the carpet was stolen on the way home! Facing the desperation, they decide to call their brother-in-law Santino, an Italian Mafioso, to help them find the body. And they begin the quest for the dead granny: from antic Greece to Serbia and Montenegro, over the mountains of Bosnia to the fields of Kosovo, all-over the nine hell circles of the Balkan criminal underworld.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
* XXVII Moscow International Film Festival - Moscow, Russia
(Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia)
* 24th Filmfest Muenchen - Munich, Germany
* 14th Raindance Film Festival - London, UK
* 7th Motovun Film Festival - Motovun, Croatia
(Award "From A to A" for the Best film in the region)
* 9th European Film Festival - Bucharest, Romania (Audience Award)
* 16th CINEQUEST-San Jose, California, USA
* 17th Palm Springs International Film Festival - Palm Springs, California, USA
* 12th International Film Festival Palic - Subotica, Serbia
* 4th Capetown World Cinema Festival - Capetown, South Africa
* 7th Balkan Black Box - Berlin, Germany
* 39th WorlFest - Houston, Texas, USA
* 37th Nashville Film Festival - Nashville, Tennessee, USA
* 20th DC International Film Festival -Washington, DC, USA
* 11th Palm Beach Film Festival - Palm Beach, Florida, USA
* 18th Festival de Peniscola - Valencia, Spain
* Ex-YU Fest - Podgorica, Montenegro
