Walking with a Lion

Una (Anđelka Prpić) is the most popular television presenter in the country, the author of the show in which she interviews the most famous people from public life in an original way. Bata (Andrija Kuzmanović) is a genius but unestablished film director on the brink of existence. At the request of her best friend, Una interviews the depressed Bata in his dilapidated apartment. The tense conversation takes an unexpected course and ends with a big explosion in which the neighbor is killed and Bata and Una are seriously injured. The investigation into the case that stirred up the public is led by the clumsy Inspector Trišić.

After the big explosion and the accident in which the grandmother was killed and Una was injured, the public and the media condemned Bata in advance. Inspector Trišić brought him to the station for questioning. Una is recovering in a private clinic. Bata's mother, painter Nada, and stepfather Žika hire a lawyer while awaiting trial in remand prison.

Frightened Bata comes to the infamous prison to serve his sentence, where he faces the greatest danger from the cruel Daba. Inspector Trišić watches Bata's old short film "Metamorphoses" and is amazed by its genius. He begins to study the history of film and the directors who inspired Bata. He becomes convinced that Bata inadvertently hid the accident.