NEXT TO ME

Olja is a high school history professor, young, ambitious and interested in alternative methods of education. She is married to a painter, whose latest exhibition provoked heated public reaction, because the nationalists considered it to be an insult for the Serbian people. Group of Olja’s students sees a reason to attack her because of this. They attack her in a parking lot, faces covered in ski-masks, pouring red paint over her. They film this and then upload the video clip on You Tube. The next day Olja discovers that some of her students are responsible for the attack. She takes away their mobile phones, and in the heat of the moment decides to lock them in the school building, also disconnecting the school phones and Internet. That night will forever change their lives, attitudes and thoughts.