In a nearby makeshift cinema, a local Romani man Taip, his son Shakir, and a United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) medical doctor named Riju watch the Indian musical romance film Bobby.
Taip lives in a shack on the outskirts of Shutka with his mother, wife Remzija and eight children.
Bajram and Taip get into a conflict with Omer and his Romani family clan, who also have their focus on the dump.
Taip plans on buying a white horse so that he can earn money from racing and move to India.
Needing more money to prepare the horse, Taip convinces Shakir to fake death.
[8] While focusing on the Romani people, the film's director Stole Popov admitted that his real intention was to depict the condition of uncertainty experienced by Macedonia in the early 1990s, which after hurriedly declaring independence, entered a period of transition for which it was not prepared.
Per Popov: This is a funny yet sad story of a Gypsy family of great dreamers making a last, desperate effort to find their way out of the Balkan labyrinth of absurdity, evil, and misfortune.
In terms of atmosphere and associations which come to mind, the story explores a situation in which one set of social rules have suddenly disappeared while new ones are still being established.
The Gypsies serve merely as a picturesque backdrop for the more universal story of the rejected and the maladjusted, of those who don’t know the rules and have trouble finding their way around in the dark.
Superficial and shallow, with no film effects or tricks, it is poorly made; it brings a monotone narrating, with no dynamics of events (presenting the facts only and nothing else).
"[3] Brendan Kelly of the magazine Variety wrote: "The most interesting moments in "Gipsy Magic" are the fascinating glimpses provided of life in modern-day Macedonia, but the story is scattershot, the central character is an unpleasant boor, and helmer Stole Popov takes way too long to wend his way through this strange tale.