30 Second Bottom Line: Four young men reunite after years of following different paths. Their world is engulfed in the civil unrest of the Croatian war. A fifth friend has just been killed by the military police. His death leads them to reminisce about their times as boys together and grieve for their lost innocence.

Story Line: This film is about the importance of friendship, the essential human need to belong and the strength one gains or loses as friendships change. Borna, one of five childhood buddies, has just been killed by the military police in Zagreb. It's 1991 and as a voice-over states, "Lots of our boys were killed or wounded."

The story is told by Andre, the most sensitive of the remaining four friends. His mind takes us back to the happy days of strong friendship among these guys, when they were around thirteen years old. It's now about ten years later and their lives and their world have changed.

Andre as a youth craves for things not to change. He desperately wants the group to stay together forever. He talks about a book he had as a child about 101 Dalmatians. There was a page in the book where one dalmatian is alone, while the remaining 100 are all in a group on the opposite page. Andre tells how he cut out the lone puppy and glued him onto the other page, to be close to the others. He can't bear to be separated from his buddies, but life, in a harsh way, has a way of taking friends away from each other.

As young teens, the boys made a pact to be buried in the woods where they had their clubhouse. After the formal burial of their friend Borna, they decide to exhume his body, keep their promise and bury Borna in the woods. It's a futile attempt to restore a bond and a simple world that can not be recaptured.

Tell Me More About It: This is a tender film that well conveys the importance of friendship and the agonies and disruption of life in a civil war. We are taken from scenes of everyday life and lovemaking, to the oppression of the presence of the military throughout a city and the lives of its people.

As we grow, we all crave the simplicity of earlier times, where friendship, adventure and fun were all that mattered. The struggles of life and horrors of war are not what these young boys bargained for. This film captures the heartache of dashed dreams and fractured friendships.

Goran Visnjic	Nenad Cvetko
Director: Ivan Salaj	1993; 70 minutes