The Counsellor

The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII end, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.

A teenage girl lives on the edge as she shares a home with her drug addicted mother and abusive drug addicted boyfriend. After being kicked out of the home she turns to working the street life to survive.

In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her brother's mental illness. Ada, a dog-owning client, hires her to follow Ada's aged and courtly father every day. The dad, a retired philology professor, has a touch of dementia, sometimes forgetting where he is; Cora is to keep him in sight, phoning Ada if the professor has difficulties. On the third day, he takes a train out of Rome, and Cora follows on what proves to be a journey into her best and worst selves. She becomes his traveling companion, but what does he become to her?

In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first to escape from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult for the family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who promises her marriage and rapes her daughter. The mother eventually ends up in an asylum, and the father returns from prison just in time to help their daughter in life--after she's mastered its crucial lesson.