Based on the play "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja" by Croatian playwright Ivon Brešan. The story is set in the 1960s in a Yugoslavian village, where an activist of a production cooperative decides to stage Shakespeare's Hamlet in a version prepared by a village teacher.
A seemingly exemplary housewife and mother, she cares about the family's good image. In reality, she is hypocritical and ruthless, tolerating wickedness and covering up scandals in the name of "higher values." Zapolska exposes bourgeois hypocrisy and ridicules so-called decent people.
