Rastislav Jovic

The series is based on the novel of the same name by Veljko Kovacevic, a writer and Spanish fighter, and tells about the dramatic growth of the uprising in 1941 in Gorski Kotar and Primorje. Like the novel, the series rests on the memory of the author, a historical witness of those events, and is full of characters whose names have passed into legend and memories. (imdb)

In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, but the naive dyer believes in "straight" intentions of his godfather - black marketeer, and he gives away free canvas to the people. But in all their pain, people are unable to distinguish good intentions from the evil ones.