Plot

Ljetujući na selu s ljutitom majkom i pijanim ocem, Dario doživi odbacivanje od svojih seoskih vršnjaka. Prepušten sebi, počinje zamjećivati pastrmke koje njegov otac i domaćin čiča Vuk love na potoku pa spremaju u bačvu s vodom iza kuće. Dvadeset godina kasnije, Dario se vraća u isto selo kako bi zatvorio jedan životni krug, prisjećajući se dana kada je kao dječak izgubio prvi zub i spasio pastrmke…

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On a summer vacation with his displeased mother and drunken father, Dario is faced with rejection from his countryside peers. Left to himself, he starts to take notice of the trouts that his father and their host Uncle Vuk are fishing in a stream and storing in a vat behind the house. Twenty years later, Dario returns to the village to bring to a close the events of that day when he, as a little boy, saved the lives of those trouts…

   Автобиографический рассказ (подробное описание)

Short story writer Dario Džamonja travels to the village where he spent a summer vacation with his parents as a boy. A dog that wakes him up from his drunken drowse on the back seat of his car reminds him of the one he spent lonely days with during that childhood vacation. He remembers his parents fighting over his mother's dissatisfaction with the destination, the only one his father could afford, and how he was, upon his deciding to take a walk through the village, bullied by his countryside peers who forced him to remove his clothes in front of them.

Frightened and confused when confronted with his own masculinity for the first time, and seeking a sense of safety and protection from his father, little Dario instead stumbles upon him in the company of their host Vuk in the act of drunken and dissolute fishing in a stream near the house. He recognizes violence towards the trouts, which are being caught for lunch, as the same violence he himself was exposed to at the hands of the village children. He runs to his mother crying, falls down in front of the house and scrapes his knee. His mother, nervous and preoccupied with her own frustration, leaves him in the good hands of auntie Anđa who gently cleans his wound and pulls out his suddenly loose tooth. While Dario watches his father and Vuk disposing of the surplus fish still alive in the water-filled vat visible through the kitchen window, Anđa stresses to him that the first tooth he just lost means he is now growing up.

Weary from all the recollections amidst his roaming through the village, the Sarajevo-born writer decides to spend the night in a nearby house. Soothed by the silence, the murmuring stream in the distance reminds him of the night when his parents went to the dance in the village, while he, unable to sleep, decided to go out in the yard and return all the trouts into the stream. Once again, getting the same old sense that raises him from bed just like twenty years ago, he walks to the same spot by the stream where he as a boy saved the trouts, and under the cover of the night throws into the water the tooth he has been treasuring all these years, ultimately freeing himself from the burden of his past and finally accepting the truth that in life you cannot save everyone.

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