Human Zoo

Warfare or crime spree?

A dark, trauma-haunted portrait of survival and moral compromise in the Balkans, where a traumatized immigrant becomes entangled in violence and a complicated relationship with her rescuer-turned-gangster.

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a deserter called Srdjan Vasiljevic in 1999. They move to Belgrade where Srdjan becomes a gangster, dealing weapons and becoming an assassin. Adria learns how to shoot and helps Srdjan with his work at first, becoming his mistress later.