Mother of Asphalt

[1][2][3] The film is a run-of-the mill social melodrama that highlights the materialistic aspirations of a young couple in their mid thirties and who are unable to perceive the emotional impact and the consequences thereof.

When Mare resists, Janko is furious and beats her up;[1][2] the scene is set in a silhouetted night sequence with Christmas lights visible at the window.

[2] Mare unable to bear the marital torture leaves her husband and goes out of the house with her son in midnight.

[2] On Christmas night, Milan, a security guard at a store who is single and quite unimpressive, sees Mare and her son living a crammed space in the car.

[1] The film is produced by Ankica Juric Tilic for "Kinorama" and Hrvatska Radiotelevizija and directed by Dalibor Matanić who has also provided the screenplay with Tomislav Zajec.