Milena is a fifty-year-old wife and mother ensconced comfortably behind a gate in an upscale suburb of Belgrade. She quietly tends to her looks, dutifully cooks and entertains, and meets her friends. But unsettling realities are beginning to seep into Milena’s consciousness and disrupt her ordered world. One day while cleaning, she happens upon a videotape that incriminates her husband in horrific war crimes.
"I started thinking about the woman who actually is the beloved wife of one of the people involved in the war operations in Bosnia. I tried to understand that person, tried to figure out what’s going on in her head, because all through the years of the conflict I was completely different from her. I was active, I gave interviews, I was an anti-war activist, I made a lot of speeches. That’s why it’s the story about an average middle-aged woman who never questioned her life, and never had strong thoughts about what was behind her well-being." (Mirjana Karanović)
Mirjana Karanović
Born in 1959 in Belgrade, Karanović is a Serbian actress known for many important roles in Balkan films. She has gained international recognition for her role in Jasmila Žbanić’s Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams. A Good Wife, her directorial debut, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.