A former criminal's attempt at love and family collapses under adultery, jealousy, murder, and prolonged flight from justice.
Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases
A Second Chance
Kuduz leaves prison and meets Badema on the city outskirts. Their attraction develops despite their age difference and Badema's young daughter.
Key Events
Release From Prison — Kuduz is released from prison as he begins a new attempt at civilian life. Characters: KuduzLocation: Prison
Meeting Badema — Kuduz meets Badema, a local girl with a young daughter. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Amela's Introduction — Badema's five-year-old daughter Amela becomes part of Kuduz's new emotional world. Characters: Badema, Amela, KuduzLocation: City outskirts
Shared Future Plans — Kuduz imagines a construction business while Badema hopes to work in a local cafe. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Building A Fragile Home
Kuduz and Badema marry and attempt to create a poor but happy life. Their imagined future includes Kuduz's construction ambitions and Badema's cafe plans.
Key Events
Marriage — Kuduz and Badema marry and attempt to establish a life together. Characters: Kuduz, Badema, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
Poor Domestic Life — The family lives in poverty, but their life initially contains happiness. Characters: Kuduz, Badema, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
Growing Attachment — Kuduz forms a profound bond with Amela, deepening his connection to Badema's family. Characters: Kuduz, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
First Quarrels — Kuduz and Badema begin a recurring pattern of arguments and reconciliations. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Love In Repeated Conflict
The couple repeatedly quarrels, separates, reconciles, and returns to one another. Kuduz's bond with Amela remains the story's emotional center.
Key Events
First Quarrels — Kuduz and Badema begin a recurring pattern of arguments and reconciliations. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Temporary Reconciliation — The couple makes up, preserving their fragile family connection. Characters: Kuduz, Badema, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
Repeated Separation — Their relationship deteriorates through another fight and separation. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Adultery Revealed — Badema's adultery becomes known, intensifying Kuduz's jealousy and despair. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Jealousy Turns Fatal
Badema's adultery destroys the fragile marriage and intensifies Kuduz's jealousy. His response is the murder of Badema and her lover.
Key Events
Jealous Confrontation — Kuduz confronts the collapse of his marriage under the pressure of jealousy. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
Double Murder — Kuduz murders Badema and her unnamed lover after discovering the adultery. Characters: Kuduz, BademaLocation: City outskirts
The Mountain Exile
Kuduz escapes into the mountains after the murders. He evades justice for years, isolated from the relationships that once gave his life meaning.
Key Events
Family Bond Shattered — The murders destroy the family connection centered on Kuduz and Amela. Characters: Kuduz, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
Flight From Justice — Kuduz flees after the murders to avoid the consequences of his crime. Characters: KuduzLocation: City outskirts
Escape Into Mountains — Kuduz escapes into the mountains, leaving the city and the shattered domestic world behind. Characters: KuduzLocation: Mountains
Years In Hiding — Kuduz remains in hiding for years while evading justice. Characters: KuduzLocation: Mountains
Loss And Isolation — His escape leaves Kuduz isolated from the love and family bond that once defined him. Characters: KuduzLocation: Mountains
Unresolved Justice — Kuduz continues to evade justice rather than receiving a settled legal resolution. Characters: KuduzLocation: Mountains
Tragic Aftermath — The story closes on the tragic consequences of love, jealousy, adultery, and violence. Characters: Kuduz, Badema, AmelaLocation: City outskirts
Story Breakdown
Prisoner Reenters Life — Kuduz leaves prison and encounters the people and hopes that shape his attempted new beginning.
Release From Prison — Kuduz begins life outside prison again.
Meeting Badema — He meets Badema on the city outskirts.
A New Romantic Bond — Kuduz and Badema form an intense relationship despite difficult circumstances.
Attraction And Marriage — Their attraction develops into marriage.
Amela Enters — Badema's daughter becomes part of Kuduz's emotional life.
Hopes For Stability — The couple imagines a modest future while trying to maintain a poor but happy household.
Construction Dream — Kuduz dreams of starting a construction business.
Cafe Ambition — Badema hopes to work in a local cafe.
Cycles Of Conflict — Their marriage repeatedly moves between arguments, separation, reconciliation, and renewed attachment.
Quarrels And Reunions — The couple repeatedly fights and makes up.
Fragile Family Bond — Kuduz's connection with Amela gives the relationship emotional weight.
Adultery And Violence — Badema's adultery transforms marital instability into irreversible tragedy.
Fatal Retaliation — Kuduz murders Badema and her lover.
Mountain Exile — After the murders, Kuduz abandons ordinary life and remains beyond the reach of justice.
Escape To Mountains — Kuduz flees into the mountains.
Years Evading Justice — He remains in hiding for years.
After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
