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"Prespav", a boardinghouse in the Prespa region of Macedonia, represents a metaphor for the real social developments in the country, the intrinsic Balkan mentality, and the struggle of the characters from which they cannot escape.

Inspired by the COVID 19 pandemics, a worried husband and father invents a professional family board game so he can strengthen the bonds of families in times of pandemics, but instead, he ends up locking his family members in separate rooms and creates "a board game for one".

The prolonged economic uncertainty forces the funeral service in Shtip workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors. Sometimes, this includes dubious connections with the local hospital. Zoki, a funeral parlor worker, starts to feel broken by the dishonest and disloyal competition, wondering if money is really everything in life, after all.

Fifteen-year-old Vedran nearly runs over little Steffi on his bike and she drops her ice cream. To make amends, he buys another cone and follows Steffi and her mother, Eva, across the city to their home - but the treat melts on the way.