After catching audiences’ attention at film festivals last year, an “unassuming tragicomic gem” from Macedonia, as The Hollywood Reporter calls it, had its TV premier on New Year’s Eve in 14 European countries, aired at prime time on HBOs popular Cinemax 2 channel.
The plot, shot against the visual backdrop of the Macedonian capital Skopje’s run-down outskirts, revolves around the tribulations of 30-something, down-on-his-luck, train yard mechanic Vele, played by Blagoj Veselinov, who resorts to illegal pain relief for his terminally ill father Sazdo, played by Anastas Tanovski.
Unable to pay medication for Sazdo’s painful late-stage lung cancer that has also triggered suicidal depression, Vele decides to use the hefty contraband stash of drugs he found in one of the train carriages at work and start baking a pot-infused cake for his father.
With Sazdo being a traditionalist and starkly anti-marijuana, Vele has to white-lie his father that he got the cake from an unnamed healer.
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