The 1990s were the most turbulent period after World War II in the region, and caused many dramatic situations. Cities were destroyed, blood everywhere, people were dying. Coma is an intimate story about a family in that period.

In 1882, when Jelena Ilka Marković – the widow of Jevrem Marković, accused of participating in the Topolska Rebellion and summarily executed – attempted to assassinate King Milan Obrenović and thus avenge her husband. She was arrested, and a few months later she was found dead in her prison cell.