Through the character of Nada, the film explores how women often navigate these shifting power structures, sometimes acting as the architects of their husbands' moral decay to ensure family survival. Cinematic Structure and Influence

The film's ambitious three-part structure invites comparisons to classical literary and cinematic works.

Dragojević uses these surreal events to critique the rapid transition from state atheism to fervent, often performative, religious nationalism.

Stojan, a simple man, unexpectedly grows a literal glowing halo after a freak accident. Rather than viewing it as a spiritual gift, his wife, Nada, sees it as a social nuisance. She forces him into a "curriculum in sin"—gluttony and adultery—to try and extinguish the light. Ironically, the more cruel and sinful Stojan becomes, the more the community respects him as a moral authority.