The rise and fall of Croatian-Montenegrin filmmaker Dušan Vukotić - the only Yugoslav Oscar-winner - uncannily mirrors the tragic fate of his multi-ethnic country.

Zagreb, 1998: The funeral of Dušan Vukotić is an intimate affair. Only a handful of closest friends and family members have shown up to commemorate the life of one of the world’s greatest visionaries of animated film. The event itself has barely made the news. In Croatia, the country in which he lived and worked, the media scarcely report on his death... But if we trace back the steps that had led to this, we find a com- pletely different situation...